Memoirs of Werner von Siemens (1816–1892) are a precious find for researchers of the scientific and technical history of the world, engineers, designers, inventors, students and teachers of technical educational institutions, innovators, entrepreneurs, and managers of all ranks. The book will give many pleasant hours to those who are interested in studying the biographies of large-scale personalities. Reading these memoirs, you can hear the voice of a representative of a great era that combined fantasy and reality. Of particular interest to the personality of Werner von Siemens, the inventor of the electric locomotive, tram, trolleybus, electric elevator, and builder of transcontinental telegraph lines, is the fact that it was he who stretched the wires of the first electric telegraph between the largest cities of Russia. A foreign eyewitness’s view of Nikolaev Russia—extraordinarily curious and valuable material—is fully captured in this publication. The consciousness of modern man has firmly linked the name Siemens with the name of a famous German company. However, before the world saw and remembered the SIEMENS logo, a stormy life took place, full of ups and downs, which was reflected in the pages of this book.