Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOREWORD
PART ONE
1 IMMANUEL
At sea
Carl XIV Johan's triumphal arch
The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
The inventor
Gummi elasticum
Lars Gabriel von Haartman
2 IMMANUEL NOBEL & SONS
The city on the Neva
Explosive experiments
Colonel Ogaryov's and Mr Nobel's licensed mechanical wheel factory and foundry
Nobel & Sons
Daily life in St Petersburg
Roof trusses and window frames
The Crimean War
Catastrophe
3 IMMANUEL AND ANDRIETTE

'The lawsuit against the Crown'
Blasting oil
Robert becomes a brewer
Underwater mines in Swedish waters
The initial ignition principle
The second lawsuit against the Crown
'The Nobel bang'
Venus and Mercury
The Nitroglycerine Company Ltd
Shared honour
Shavings for the benefit of the homeland
'One of the men representative of their century'
PART TWO
4 LUDVIG
The Ludvig Nobel Machine Factory
From muzzle-loaders to breech-loaders
Vladimir Baranovsky
The Russian Technological Society
Robert returns to St Petersburg
Ludvig's honeymoon trip

The Berdanka
Profi t-sharing and reform of working conditions
5 ROBERT
The Caucasus
The de Boer Brothers
Logistical challenges
A St Petersburg interlude
Bad Kube
City of the Winds
6 ROBERT AND LUDVIG
Excise duty
'Brilliant results'
'Views on the oil industry in Baku and its future'
Ludvig's programme
The Nobel brothers' Naphtha Production Company
The men around Robert
Robert's last days in Baku
7 THE NOBEL BROTHERS
'Our works are large and magnificent'
Villa Petrolea
The pessimist and the optimist

The Transcaucasian Railway and the house of Rothschild
The year 1886
8 THE END OF AN EPOCH
The Swedish parish and societies
Social life
Nordenskiöld
Summer retreats
An epoch is buried
'A shining example'
The first Nobel prize
The inheritance
PART THREE
9 THE THIRD GENERATION
The Emperor's visit
Leadership problems
Ivar Lagerwall
Carl Nobel and the machine factory
Brother Hjalmar
Cousin Hjalmar
10 EMANUEL
The Syndicate
The Rothschild's and Standard Oil
The problems seen from Robert's vantage point
Not 'what' but 'who'

The fateful year of 1896
11 THE AGE OF GREATNESS
Karl Vassilievitch
Cream separators and internal combustion engines
Political unrest
'Bloody Sunday'
Emanuel the politician
12 WELFARE AND CHARITY
The Nobel towns
The People's House
Marta
'A little Sweden on Russian soil'
Selma Lagerlöf's visit
Kirjola
13 POLITICAL UNREST, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND WAR
The king and his princes
Olsen and Hagelin depart
Economic growth
New deposits
World war
Consumer societies and hospitals
14 ANNO 1917
The Bolshevik coup
Civil war
Exile in Kislovodsk