Once upon a time, adventurers and bureaucrats, if not just bandits, became entrepreneurs in Russia. Now ordinary people, middle managers and intellectuals, whom their predecessors would probably call dreamers and “nerds,” are going into business. Each of them is looking for an answer to the question: what will happen to me if, in the conditions of modern Russia, which is ruled by oligarchs, officials and security officials, I take and leave a large, but someone else’s company, in order to create a small, but my own? The story of the “persistent idealist” Fyodor Ovchinnikov, told by journalist Maxim Kotin, answers this question.