About the book: 2017 / For several generations of Russians there was only one Brynner - Yul, Hollywood star, King of Siam, Dmitry Karamazov, Taras Bulba and leader of the Magnificent Seven. Many Far Easterners know another Briner - Jules, an industrialist, developer, one of the fathers of Vladivostok and the founder of Dalnegorsk. This book introduces us for the first time to the more than century-and-a-half odyssey of four generations of Brynners - Jules, Boris, Yul and Rock - and the history of the empires that each of them, in one way or another, tried to build. The epic of this family is inextricably linked with Russia and the Far East and inseparable from the entire history of the 19th and 20th centuries.