The Exchange Should be Built Here (220,00 руб.)

Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, 2000 Several centuries have passed since the beginning of exchange activity in Russia. <...> Financial institu tions for organization of trade in various instruments and exchange commodities were built. <...> The reader will learn how exchange merchants carried out their trade, which goods they traded, how they lived, what they were interested in apart from commercial affairs. <...> During the last ten years we have been restoring once interrupted historical succession and following the way of those pioneers who stood at the beginning of exchange trade in Russia thinking of the new progressive ways of development. <...> MICEX Chief Executive Officer Alexander V. Zakharov Contents 7 BEGINNINGS IN THE “IVANOV HUNDREDS” 16 THE “CITY” OF MOSCOW 40 RUSSIA'S “DISTRIBUTOR OF SECURITIES” 75 THE STATE SEEKS LOANS 100 IN THE “KITCHEN” OF THE EXCHANGE 122 THE MERCHANTS' CLUB AND MERCHANT PHILANTHROPY 132 RUSSIA ACQUIRES ITS REGIONS 167 POSTSCRIPT 170 KEY EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN EXCHANGES 173 BIBLIOGRAPHY The merchant class should not be neglected or humiliated because no state, not to mention a great one, can do without it. <...> I.T. Pososhkov, Russian economist and writer The history of Russian exchange began not from the foundation of St. Petersburg, as it was considered before, not even from “the window to Europe” (access to the Baltic sea), hewed through by Peter the Great. <...> Later the centre of trade moved to Moscow, then to St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, and a great net work of exchanges was built throughout Russia. <...> In meeting demand for their goods (the fur, flax, hops, wax, and honey of Novgorod were held in high esteem) the merchants of Novgorod travelled to all parts but particularly to the South, where they purchased grain, a staple commodity. <...> Some inter esting documents of the twelfth and thir teenth centuries describe the activities of the merchant corporations, which trad ed in a whole range of goods needed by the population. <...> This guild operated according to a rigorous statute, which had been confirmed by Prince Vsevolod around 1135. <...> Admittance to the Ivanov Hundred was by a single money pay A Russian Merchant ment. <...> It was replaced by the rouble in the fifteenth century. <...> In the sixteenth <...>