The amazing life and fate of Ivan Vasilyevich Kulaev can serve as an example for a true entrepreneur. He tried his luck in the mines in the tundra, drowned under the ice of the Yenisei, survived the Chinese Boxer Rebellion, the Russo-Japanese and the First World War, revolution, nationalization of property, bandit kidnapping... Each time starting from scratch, he believed in his luck, in his lucky star . The book recreates the authentic atmosphere of life, economics and industry in Siberia at the beginning of the century.