The Ruble That Never Existed

The economic history is overshadowed by the political one. Monarchs and commanders are remembered better than the past successes of trade or economic crises. Our contemporaries have completely forgotten even the names of goods that once played a role in Russian exports comparable to the precious sables of Siberia during the early Romanovs or gas and oil today.
Meanwhile, the history of the domestic economy is as dramatic and fascinating as the political and military twists of our past.
How much Rus paid to the Horde, how Pushkin overlooked bread coupons, how much cat fur cost, and what the true black gold was – all this and much more about the past of our economy will be told by historian Alexey Volynets.