books.google.com - A portrait of the twilight years of Isarism by Count Sergei Witte (1849-1915), the man who built modern Russia. Witte presents incisive and often piquant portraits of the mighty and those around them--powerful Alexander III, the weak-willed Nicholas II, and the neurasthenic Empress Alexandra, along with...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_memoirs_of_Count_Witte.html?id=kTswgGNBFBAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe memoirs of Count Witte