The amazing life and fate of Ivan Vasilyevich Kulaev can serve as an example for a true entrepreneur. He tried his luck in the mines in the tundra, drowned under the ice of the Yenisei, survived the Chinese boxing uprising, the Russo-Japanese and World War I, the revolution, the nationalization of property, and bandit abduction. Every time he started from scratch, he believed in his luck, in his lucky star. The book recreates the true atmosphere of life, economy and industry in Siberia at the beginning of the century.