Russian entrepreneur; publisher Ivan Sytin of Moscow 1851-1934
Charles A. Ruud

Not only did Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin build Sytin & Co. into the largest publishing concern in Russia prior to the Revolution, he also transformed Russian Word from an obscure, conservative newspaper into Russia’s leading daily, with a circulation of over one million copies in 1917. Charles Ruud shows that Sytin, a peasant born villager who made millions in publishing, was truly an entrepreneur in the sense of Joseph Schumpeter’s definition, a risk taker who is able to devise ‘new combinations of productive means’.