A wonderful ball. Volkov A.

The action of the historical novel “The Miraculous Ball” of Alexander Volkov-the classic of Russian literature and the author of the fabulous series about the wizard of the emerald city-was developing in the 50s of the XVIII century during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna. Dmitry Rakitin - a highly educated person, a talented student of Lomonosov - in the walls of the prison chamber invents a aircraft, which gives heated air the lifting force. A real book tells about the difficult fate of the Russian inventor, about his hardships and joys.