They say in our days there can"t be another Leonardo da Vinci, Michailo Lomonosov or Benjamin Franklin - a "universal man" who seized all sciences, arts and crafts. 20th century placed men by the conveyor. 21st century became the age of Internet, and the volume of existing information now doubles every year and a half. The world gets more and more complex. They say there came an era of narrow specialists, masters at their own single trade... But who are they - those masters? Look for the answer in this collection of stories.