That very magician Bruce

Yakov Vilimovich Bruce is an outstanding son of two peoples, Scottish and Russian. Even during his lifetime, the people went about legends about him as a magician and a warlock, and surrounded by Peter the Great Bruce was known as an outstanding military leader, commander of all Russian artillery during the Northern War, as a brilliant diplomat. By the encyclopedicity of knowledge and versatility of the contribution to various branches of science, it can rightfully be called the predecessor of M.V. Lomonosov. In addition to scientific works, he wrote a number of textbooks in mathematics, physics, technology for Navigatsky, artillery and mathematical schools, equipped an astronomical observatory and a chemical laboratory in the Sukharev tower, where he conducted his famous experiments.

The book proposed is written on the basis of archival materials and is the first complete biography of Y.V. Bruz