About the book: 1994 / This book is about the mysterious fate of Robert Bartini - scientist, designer, philosopher. About outside interference in human affairs. And about the meaning of such intervention. Robert Ludwigovich Bartini. Visited this Earth from 1897 to 1974. Technology connoisseurs know the fact: even before the war, the USSR tested the so-called “Invisible Airplane” - an aircraft that literally disappeared into the air. Right at the start. But there are no documents, no eyewitnesses have been found, and the few references in technical literature are scant and implausible. This book is an investigative report. And also the first attempt to document the fact of progressorism - outside interference in the affairs of earthly civilization. A ten-year search led to stunning results: the scientist who created the mysterious device appeared in our country as if out of nowhere. He brought to Russia a new model of the Universe - the most “crazy” one in the last four hundred years! - and found himself involved in all the most significant events of the past century. And what’s absolutely incredible is that this mysterious man became the prototype of many literary heroes: Bulgakov’s Woland, Drood from Green’s “The Shining World,” Exupery’s Little Prince, Efremov’s Gift of the Wind. And even Ostap Suleiman Maria Bertha Bender Bey!.. The book is not intended for a wide range of readers.