The Importance of Human Capital in the Tsarist Period

The archive was preserved after a member of the family emigrated to America. Konstantin and Gluten, took his immediate family with him but large chunk of relatives stayed in Russia. The reason why this archive was preserved is because they were preserving records very meticulously. And what we learned from this archive is the process of adaptation of merchant families who might have lost all their wealth,. but haven't lost the values and the human capital.