Sociocultural activities of the Russian business community of the XIX – beginning XX century in the context of quantitative history

The article presents the experience of analyzing the socio-cultural activities of the Russian business community using quantitative methods (building trend models based on the materials of dynamic series of annual reports) for the development of the Arnoldo-Tretyakov school, shows the contribution of entrepreneurs to the formation of funds for the development and construction of educational institutions, scholarship funds based on charitable practices.