the Germany army and was killed on the Eastern Front. With his mother he fled from his home as the Russian army advanced in 1944, and his home subsequently became part of Poland. The family settled in Neumunster

During the Second World War the Wolfsburg factory produced armaments, many of its workers being Russian prisoners of war, and in 1947 Porsche was imprisoned for a short time by the French occupying authorities

of the Russian aristocrat Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich (1891-1942), and in 1919 established a maison de couture at 31 rue Cambon in Paris. In 1920-21 she provided accommodation for the Russian composer

luxury products. He was born to a Jewish family in Novhorod-Siverskyi, which in 1906 was part of the Russian Empire but is now in Ukraine. His father had a tobacco business in Kiev but in 1911 the family migrated

and subsequently lived openly with a courtesan, Pauline Lachmann (1819-1884), Marquise de Paiva, a Russian Jewess known as La Paiva. He continued to hold rank in the Prussian army and was military governor

Isambard Brunel’s (1806-59) broad gauge. He was involved with the building of railways in Germany, the Russian Empire and Mauritius, and provided advice during the long-sustained construction of the Great Western

some time in England in the 1820s, and on his return, in 1833-34, he and his son built the first Russian steam locomotive which was set to work on a railway with cast-iron track that served a copper mine

of establishing a cotton factory for Tsar Alexander I (1777-1825) and distributing Bibles in the Russian language. He visited Finland in 1819 and subsequently gained permission to build a water-powered

iron cladding for wooden warships and gun carriages for naval cannon. His involvement with the Russian Empire began in 1868 when the Millwall Ironworks was commission to do work at the imperial fortress [...] associated collieries, brickworks, forges and rolling mills. By 1914 it was the largest ironworks in the Russian Empire. After he died, in St Petersburg, the works was managed by his sons, who, with most other

expand the textile industries in the Russian Empire, bringing his direct knowledge and his connections with English cotton suppliers and machine makers. With the Russian entrepreneur Savva V. Morozov in 1849

railway. From 1834 von Gerstner was commissioned by the Russian Crown to present proposals for a strategic steam-powered railway network to serve the Russian Empire. He designed Russia’s first public railway

Jaworzno, between Kraków and Katowice. In 1825 he sold some earlier business and moved to Warsaw in Russian Poland. This became the centre of his empire as he invested his capital in several different sectors

in 1862 he moved to Kharkiv. In 1866, he founded one of the first private commercial banks in the Russian Empire, the Kharkiv Mutual Credit Society, which was unusual in making short-term loans to small [...] Alchevska, an influential educator, he supported Ukrainian-language education and literacy. During the Russian economic crisis of 1899-1901, Altschewskyj’s requests for loans from the Ministry of Finance were [...] wealth and end his support for Ukrainian nationalism. His assets and companies were seized by the Russian authorities. At the request of his workers, the industrial city of Alchevsk was named in his honour

Corbeil. The disruption of the Napoleonic Wars caused a decline in business and the invasion by Russian and Prussian forces in 1815 resulted in the factory closing. Oberkampf died soon afterwards. His

Łódź as a great industrial city. Poznański’s family were textile merchants who moved within the Russian Empire to Łódź when he was an infant. At this time Łódź had a small population but it was growing [...] state encouragement of industry. Inward migration created a multicultural society of Poles, Germans, Russians and Polish Jews like the Poznańskis. While still a teenager Poznański became a rag dealer and then