He was called “the master of the universe” and “a brilliant madman.” He was suspected of having connections with Dracula and the other world. He was credited with the invention of “death rays”, the ability to read minds and move people in space and time (remember the amazing movie “The Prestige”?). He is even blamed for the fall of the Tunguska meteorite and the disappearance of the destroyer Eldridge during the Philadelphia experiment. Everything he did went beyond the understanding of his contemporaries - he was centuries ahead of his time... Born in a small Serbian village, Nikola Tesla became famous throughout the world, becoming the pride of not only Serbia, but the entire Slavic world, gained immortality in legends and myths that still excite minds. A great physicist, a great engineer, a genius of electrical engineering, the greatest inventor of the 20th century, who received more than 800 patents for his discoveries, he predetermined the course of development of human civilization, laid the technological foundation of the modern world, opened the doors to the future... This book - the first Russian biography of Nikola Tesla, published half a century ago in a meager circulation and has long become a bibliographic rarity.