Vasily Aleksandrovich Kokorev (1817-1889) - famous Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, philanthropist, prominent public figure and publicist. "Economic failures" is Kokorev's main journalistic work, his political testament addressed to the Russian public. In it, the Russian entrepreneur calls for abandoning blind imitation of the West and moving on to searching for one’s own inner principles for the economic revival of Russia. “It’s time for state thought,” he writes, “to stop searching for economic foundations outside of Russia and littering the native soil with forced transplants; it’s time, it’s high time to return home and recognize its strength in its people.”