«Безумно богатые русские», Элизабет Шимпфёссль — Амстердам

Our April Book in Amsterdam - ** “Madly Rich Russians” ** Elizabeth Shimpfesl. In the original, it is called simply ** “Rich Russian” **, and they added insanity in the publishing house Individuum.

This is an impressive and large -scale anthropological study based on an interview with more than 80 respondents such as Dmitry Kiselev, Peter Aven and Oleg Tinkov. Many preferred to remain anonymous, and among them there are probably no less loud names. The book is unique in that Shimpfesl managed to look at the world of Russian oligarchs from the inside and achieve the level of frankness that the researcher from Russia could only dream.

The author explores their heroes through their relations with spouses and children, their attempts to take a place among the world elite, where the championship traditionally remains with the “old money”, as they explain to themselves and others the right to wealth, usually formed in the nineties, their influence on the tastes and systems of values ​​of a large stratum of the compatriots - many of the expressed opinions are easily recognized in the emigrant environment - And many other topics.

**Annotation**
*The contradictory glory of the Russian oligarchs has long spilled over the limits of the country where they made their capital. The whole world is gossiping about them, then chuckling, then condemning, but with unchanging pleasure takes their money. What do they think about themselves?*
*The Austrian sociologist Elizabeth Shimpfesl, who has been living in London, the capital of the oligarchs for fifteen years, spent a hundred conversations with the richest people in Russia and their close associates to find the answer to this question. From her book you will learn how the oligarchs explain their crazy wealth, which they teach their children and what they are going to do in a new reality, where they will have to choose between a comfortable life in the West and the preservation of Russian assets.*

🥂 In April, our club is three years old, and after the meeting, a festive dinner will be held. Closer to business, we will publish more details.

⚠️ As always, to participate in the discussion, you need to read the book.

The meeting is scheduled for 14:00, but the discussion will begin at 14:15. Please, still try to come to 14:00 in order to have time to take coffee before the start of the conversation and do not break the meeting, if the path to the library takes a little more planned.

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