[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":3,"doc-seo-532760-105":59,"doc-detail-532760-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",[7,13,18,23,28,33,38,43,48,51,55],{"id":8,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":10,"show_sort_weight":11,"slug":12},1,"Document","Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":14,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":15,"show_sort_weight":16,"slug":17},2,"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":19,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":20,"show_sort_weight":21,"slug":22},4,"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":24,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":25,"show_sort_weight":26,"slug":27},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":29,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":30,"show_sort_weight":31,"slug":32},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":34,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":35,"show_sort_weight":36,"slug":37},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":39,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":40,"show_sort_weight":41,"slug":42},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":44,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":45,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":47},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":46,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":49,"show_sort_weight":46,"slug":50},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":52,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":53,"show_sort_weight":52,"slug":54},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":56,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":9,"category_name":57,"show_sort_weight":24,"slug":58},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":60,"data":61},"ok",{"site_id":62,"language":63,"slug":64,"title":65,"keywords":66,"description":67,"schema_data":68,"social_meta":123,"head_meta":125,"extra_data":127,"updated_unix":129},105,"en","douglas-brunt-the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel-prologue-december-1918-chapter-1-prison-or-russia-december-1837","Douglas Brunt - The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel - Prologue - December 1918 - Chapter 1 - Prison or Russia - December 1837","","The text is a narrative opening that interweaves two pivotal timelines in the life of Emanuel/Immanuel Nobel. In December 1918, Emanuel navigates post-revolution danger in Kislovodsk, facing Joseph Stalin’s regime and receiving news that his half brothers are imprisoned, while he weighs whether to resist or flee. In Chapter 1 (December 1837), Immanuel confronts bankruptcy and the threat of imprisonment in Sweden, deciding to escape to Russia with invention plans, leaving his family behind temporarily.",{"@graph":69,"@context":122},[70,84,105],{"@type":71,"itemListElement":72},"BreadcrumbList",[73,77,79,82],{"item":74,"name":75,"@type":76,"position":8},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":78,"name":9,"@type":76,"position":14},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/",{"item":80,"name":10,"@type":76,"position":81},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/story-novel/",3,{"item":83,"name":65,"@type":76,"position":19},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/douglas-brunt-the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel-prologue-december-1918-chapter-1-prison-or-russia-december-1837/532760/",{"url":83,"name":65,"@type":85,"image":86,"author":91,"headline":65,"publisher":94,"fileFormat":97,"inLanguage":63,"description":67,"dateModified":98,"datePublished":99,"encodingFormat":97,"isAccessibleForFree":100,"interactionStatistic":101},"DigitalDocument",{"url":87,"@type":88,"width":89,"height":90},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/douglas-brunt-the-lost-empire-of-emanuel-nobel-prologue-december-1918-chapter-1-prison-or-russia-december-1837/532760.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":92,"@type":93},"Maya Linwood","Person",{"url":74,"name":95,"@type":96},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-10-23","2026-10-09",true,{"@type":102,"interactionType":103,"userInteractionCount":19},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":104},"ViewAction",{"@type":106,"mainEntity":107},"FAQPage",[108,114,118],{"name":109,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":111},"What decision does Emanuel Nobel face in the December 1918 prologue?","Question",{"text":112,"@type":113},"He weighs whether to remain in Russia and confront the Soviet takeover or to flee as Stalin’s forces close in.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"Why do Emanuel’s advisors encourage him to escape immediately?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"They fear the communists are consolidating control and that it may already be too late, especially with Stalin’s secret police targeting his family.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What drives Immanuel Nobel’s move in Chapter 1 (December 1837)?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Bankruptcy and threats of imprisonment force him to leave Sweden so he can work and potentially secure a future for his children.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},532760,1792162536,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":8,"category_name":10,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":19,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},962084928432,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_155a257f0dc6eb9ab79c44ca47cae57d","For The Core 5  \nThere is nopresent orfuture—only thepast, happening over and over.  \n—Eugene O’Neill  \nWhen everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.  \n—Rudyard Kipling  \nPROLOGUE  \nDECEMBER 1918  \nEMANUEL NOBEL CLOSED the door to his suite of rooms at the Grand Hotel and walked outside to the cold air of early winter as he weighed the most important decision of his life.  \nHe strolled the cobblestone streets of Kislovodsk, a resort town in southern Russia where for seven months he’d taken refuge from the slaughter of civil war that had engulfed his country. Armies opposed to the Communist takeover buϦered the quiet town from the frenetic and fast-shifting battle lines.  \nIn the street he passed others who, like him, had left their homes but stopped short of abandoning Russia entirely. By his estimation the town now contained the aristocracy of “half of Petrograd” (today Saint Petersburg), assorted government ministers, and several relatives of the murdered Tsar Nicholas II. Only a few months earlier Communist guards had dragged Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, and their ϯve young children to the basement of the house where they’d been imprisoned and shot the huddled family point-blank. Then, fueled by a mix of vengeance, hate, and alcohol, the guards stood over the bodies and repeatedly stabbed them with the bayonets of riϲes. They threw the corpses into a hastily dug pit, poured acid over top, and buried the remains.  \nIn the wake of this terror, Emanuel received word that Joseph Stalin’s secret police had arrested Emanuel’s two younger half brothers and were holding them in a dank cell in the Peter and Paul Fortress in Petrograd, only a stone’s throw from the headquarters of Nobel’s family business. Stalin had emerged as one of the most powerful and ruthless leaders of the revolutionary communist  \ngovernment. Now the party leaders of the new regime—the Moscow Soviet—had summoned Emanuel to the capital, wanting to press him into their service in order to stabilize the war-torn Russian economy.  \nHis advisors urged him to refuse the Soviet and remain in the region of Russia not under communist control until he could safely escape the country altogether. These loyal colleagues had prepared forged travel documents, designed a costume of a peasant to ϯt him, and coordinated an escape route to reach the Finnish border traveling by covered wagon. They begged Emanuel to ϲee Russia immediately, afraid that it might already be too late. The Communists were consolidating their control beyond the capital, and Stalin’s armies were closing in fast.  \nIt was now December 1918 and winter was here. As Emanuel passed through the town market, the blue-eyed and gray-bearded bachelor politely greeted the proprietor of one of the shops. He selected his provisions and approached to pay. The resort-town community had long since run out of roubles, yet it was not practical for this set of unlikely refugees to pay for bread with diamonds the size of teeth. So, shortly after Nobel had arrived, he devised a new currency in cooperation with the local bank, which printed new notes. He established a system to guarantee the currency using the residents’ deposits of jewels, stocks, and other hard assets.  \nEmanuel opened his billfold and smiled as he removed a few of the notes. The proprietor had often remarked on Emanuel’s broad and friendly face, his self-possession. Nobel exchanged notes for the purchase and left with his goods. The proprietor, as did all the royals and aristocracy encamped in the town, appreciatively called these bills “Nobel Notes.”  \nEmanuel returned to his suite at the Grand Hotel, where his colleagues awaited him. If he could survive the Soviet’s attempt to seize his businesses, he would remain one of the wealthiest men in the world.  \nHis executives stood before him in the comfortable suite while he removed his heavy coat. Then Emanuel Nobel quietly informed them of his decision as to whether he would remain in Russia","cbCaiuSDFlUopTZe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuSDFlUopTZe","pdf",44055593,389,"English","# Prologue\n## December 1918\n# Chapter 1\n## Prison or Russia\n## December 1837","[{\"question\":\"What decision does Emanuel Nobel face in the December 1918 prologue?\",\"answer\":\"He weighs whether to remain in Russia and confront the Soviet takeover or to flee as Stalin’s forces close in.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do Emanuel’s advisors encourage him to escape immediately?\",\"answer\":\"They fear the communists are consolidating control and that it may already be too late, especially with Stalin’s secret police targeting his family.\"},{\"question\":\"What drives Immanuel Nobel’s move in Chapter 1 (December 1837)?\",\"answer\":\"Bankruptcy and threats of imprisonment force him to leave Sweden so he can work and potentially secure a future for his children.\"}]","Douglas Brunt - The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel - Prologue - December 1918 - Chapter 1 - Prison or Russia - December 1837 | PDF",1791584702,599]