The book is a scientific and artistic biography of the great Russian Soviet scientist and thinker, academician Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863-1945). A geochemist and mineralogist at the beginning of his journey, V. And Vernadsky later created a holistic picture of the development of our planet, linking in his theory the data of geology with the science of life and man. This edition is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of the world famous scientist.