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How the state recommended the nobility to spend money and what they actually spent it on. Lecture No. 1 from the course "The Splendor and Poverty of the Russian Empire." Lecturer: Elena Korchmina, PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Source Studies at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Take the entire course on Arzamas: http://arzamas.academy/courses/35 Arzamas is an educational project about the history of culture https://arzamas.academy. You can listen to our courses and podcasts in the "Radio Arzamas" app http://arzamas.academy/radio. And to stay up to date with new materials, follow us on social networks: FB: / arzamas.academy VK: https://vk.com/arzamas.academy Twitter: / arzamas_academy Instagram: / arzamas.academy