"Count Sergey Юльевич Витте, among not many our prominent statesmen, occupies the most prominent position indisputably. To his name the largest reform of our money circulation and native transformation of the state budget, quickly creating possibility to become the equal in rights member of international economic turn to Russia, are indissolubly related. Decision role belonging to гр. Витте in these stumpers to state economic life, the stronger brings over to itself attention, that, seemed, he had not at all been prepared to her".