* Stories about apartment buildings, tea, tobacco, gold, and seaweed. About people who put everything on the line, going to an unknown land, and rising to heights they could not even dream of. Or those who did not rise. Stories about patrons, educators, the “Russian Montecristo” and two Hamburgers who turned their grocery store into a multinational corporation, about terrorists and vodka kings, about the brutal and dirty undercover struggle of trading houses. You will see the mansions, apartment buildings and trading houses of the richest people of old Vladivostok: Yakov Semenov, Yuli Briner, Vasily Babintsev, Gustav Kunst and Gustav Albers, the Pyankov brothers and many others, learn about their lives, business and the fate of their offspring after the Civil War.