Betankur - Kuznetsov Dmitrii Ivanovich

This book tells the story of an amazing man - Augustine de Betancourt (1758?1824), scientist, architect and engineer, organizer of construction and transport in the Russian Empire. Only a list of his inventions can take more than one page. He lived in Russia during the era of Alexander I, when the main architectural ensembles of the city on the Neva were created. Betancourt's name is surrounded by many mysteries, and completely unexpected. The author of the book Dmitry Kuznetsov, using sometimes detective investigative methods, tried to unravel them and tell about what would seem to be forever hidden in history.