This book is about the famous scientist, legendary TV presenter, outstanding science promoter, teacher, traveler Sergei Petrovich Kapitsa. A man of the noblest scientific origin - the son of P. L. Kapitsa, academician, member of the Royal Society of London, Nobel laureate, and the grandson of the outstanding Russian academician and shipbuilder A. N. Krylov, Sergei Petrovich experienced exceptional successes and deep disappointments in his life. When he was 30 years old, under his leadership a microtron was created - one of the most successful cyclic accelerators, but he was never even elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He devoted more than thirty-five years of his life to teaching at MIPT, a top-level technical university, from which, since the late 1980s, about 80 percent of the best young technical minds have been “exported” from Russia. Having become the most popular Soviet TV presenter, in the 1990s he was expelled from television, and already in the second half of the 1980s he spoke about the extremely negative impact of television broadcasting on people. When writing the book, his numerous works, documents provided by the children of Sergei Petrovich, and archives were used Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physical Problems named after. P. L. Kapitsa, testimonies of his employees and comrades.