The name of Ivan Stanislavovich Bliokh (1836-1901), the largest Russian banker, concessionaire of railways in the Russian Empire, is associated with a number of large generalizing scientific studies. The most famous of them was the multi-volume work "The Future War in Technical, Political and Economic Relations," published in 1898 and which was very popular throughout Europe, which covered the military-technical, economic and political aspects of the war. It is important to note the amazing gift of foresight of the author, which allowed him to predict the nature of the First World War. The publication is provided with extensive illustrative material.