“Mantashevsky Rows” is a book about the life and work of one of the most curious, rich, and happiest men of his time: Alexander Ivanovich Mantashev, oil king and financial tycoon, head of a large family, philanthropist, and builder. Mantashev is known to many as a businessman who made an invaluable contribution to the development of the oil business of the Russian Empire and as a patriot of his people, and his culture. But in the book, these two hypostases - the businessman and the patriot - are not just united, but also logically closed in a circle drawn by the history of his family and his own beliefs. This is not even a junction of the documentary and fiction genres, but the edge of one and the other, emphasized by the author’s manner of mixing times and events and leading to the reader’s great regret about the last point - both in the book and in the life of Alexander Mantashev.
