Les investissements français en Russie de 1857 à 1914. Conseils, expertises et stratégies
Journal: Quaestio Rossica
Year: 2015

On the eve of the First World War, France had become the largest investor in the Russian loans as well as in the economic fabric of the Tsarist Empire. France is gradually overtook all European countries over the years 1900–1914. Yet before 1857 and the involvement of the Credit Mobilier, created by the Pereire brothers, the number of French investors in the Russian economy was anecdotal. The testimony given by engineers “politichniciens” evolved in Russia First Empire at the dawn of the 1850s,