Ivan Kulibin - the legend and pride of Russian culture, Nizhny Novgorod self-taught master, creator of unique mechanisms, inventor, whose ideas have overtaken their time. Foreigners hunted for his drawings, and all his life he thought not about personal gain, but about the glory of the Fatherland. Maybe for the first time the life and fate of a Russian genius in this book appears so lively, accessible and humanly warm.