4. The Emergence and Formation of Management Thought in Russia (Ninth to Eighteenth Centuries)

This chapter examines genesis, formation, and the development of management thinking in Russia of the ninth to eighteenth centuries. The authors of ideas here are state and religious figures, academics, representatives of various Russian categories, and classes, including representatives of the nascent third word. The sources were ancient records and tales, legislation, monographs of scientists and thinkers, archival documents, and memoirs. Of particular interest is the Sylvester’ treatise “The Domostroy,” containing many original ideas of household management. Among the heroes and creators of Russia’s management thought of this period are princes, emperors and representatives of imperial families, statesmen, advisers to emperors, and scientists such as Yurij Krizhanich, Ivan Pososhkov, and Michail Lomonosov.