But our views are blurred by the whirlwinds of markets, as firms and fortunes, the commercial "empires" of this era, are lost and made.

但是，我们的目光由于市场旋风而变得模糊，企业和财富，这个时代的商业“帝国”，丧失和被创造。

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Though empires crumble to dust, and centuries are lost in shadows, the white marble still sighs to the stars, "I remember."

尽管帝国皇权已经化为齑粉，历史已经湮没无闻，而那白色的大理石却依然向满天的繁星叹息说：“我记得！”

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Vanished civilisations and lost empires leave a city stalked by horror and steeped in wonder.

ECONOMIST: Vilnius

"The Far East is a Russian colony and all the empires lost their colonies, " explains Igor Ilyushin, who, as a professor of journalism at the Far Eastern State University, has contact with all levels of Russian officialdom.

FORBES: When worlds collide