Serge Witz - The Man Who Modernized the Economy

Serge witt was born into a noble family of baltic germans. His father converted from lutheran to orthodoxy to advance his political career. He originally went off to university to study theoretical mathematics with an eye on becoming a professor. But instead he entered the civil service in the growing railroad sector. In 18 83 he published an influential paper outlining ways to improve the freight system of russia. This included not just technical and organizational recommendations, but he also said that the czar needed to take some official interest in the conditions of industrial workers.