The lost empire of Emanuel Nobel Romanovs, revolutionaries, and the forgotten titan who fueled the world
"Other than the Tsar, Emanuel Nobel was likely the wealthiest man in early 20th-century Russia. He and his father, Ludwig, rose from bankruptcy to become the owners of an oil company that rivaled John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. They imported the best practices from America, and then used their o...
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Atria Books,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Prison or Russia
- Reform, repress, repeat
- "Everyone rushed for everthing at once"
- From well to wick
- The first oil war
- Emanuel leads a Russian deluge
- Changing of the guards
- All roads lead to Baku
- The danger is from within
- The second baptism of fire
- Rasputin
- The best customer of Fabergâe
- World on fire
- The Tsar cannot be in two places at once
- February
- October
- Campaign promise delivered
- Burn down teh mast
- Run for your life
- Civil is the worst kind of war
- Woe to the vanquished
- At last.
