Many contradictory in the appearance of Count S. Yu. Witte. The statesman would have affected his character of the transitional time, in istorіi of which he played a central role. His bіografіya partly explains some of the ambiguity of his activity, preobladanіe d? Ice over politics. K sozhalnіyu, we, like Witte's contemporaries, do not know the completeness of the materіalov, we do not know what kind of private interests znachenіe had for him...