BUSINESS AND TRADE DURING THE REIN OF CATHERINE II (the Second Half of the XVIII Century)
In the article the development of business and trade during the period of rein of Catherine II who has cleaned the majority of constraints and restrictions in these spheres that has provided rapid development to numerous branches of the domestic industry and banking are analyzed. The author marks such phenomenal occurrence in the Russian history, as occurrence of the businessmen-serfs successfully operating for example, in the textile industry, and also occurrence of two inconsistent tendencies - support of the private initiative and a rigid regulation of an economic life in the empire