Vehicle- kolaska Leontij Szamszurenkow

Ideas for building a car powered by human muscles were born not only in Western Europe, but also in the east. In Russia, in Jaransk, lived an extremely gifted master carpentry, Leontij Szamszurenkow. We know little about his life, except this, that he was an unlearned man, but very gifted. In year 1741 he asked a village pope, who can write, that he would send a letter to the office of the Niżegorod Province Governorate, informing about the successful attempts by him to build a "self-propelled collage" from people's eyes”.
For ten years the letter was gaining “official power”, wandering in an official manner through countless bureaucratic offices, and finally the Moscow office of the senate approached St. Petersburg with a proposal, that “said peasant, Szamszurenek, be ordered to make this amazing cola”. The matter of decision continued for two more years, until finally a year 1752 The inventor was summoned to the capital and ordered to begin construction in secret and secret. Happy Shamshurenkov finished his life's work in just six months, about which work "Kancelaria do Spraw construction” submitted the following report to the Senate: “Kolaska is going, driven by two people hidden inside, and to build one item you have to pay for various materials and government artisans employed in the construction 75 rubli i 5 kopeck”.
The Kolask was delivered to the tsarist court, where it was used for entertainment. Its inventor lived in poverty, for he was not allowed to return to his native village, and at the same time stopped paying for maintenance; simply forgotten about the creator of the vehicle that is the decoration of the court coach house. Shamshurenko, driven to misery, as long as he was harassing the authorities, Until she finally ordered him to go "K czortu”. It was a godsend for the sterile inventor., who, begging on the way, reached his native Jarańsk, to pick up there, to great joy, the prize sent to him 50 Rubles.
Encouraged by the return of the memory of him, Shamshurenkov sent the letter again, proposing this time to build a new colander, lighter, faster and more agile. Unfortunately for this letter, as well as the proposal to build a "verstometer-clock”, which would be the world's first prototype of this type of odometer, currently used in every car, he did not receive any reply.