Dear readers! I present to you a completely new book, dedicated not simply to the history of the multinational Russian people, but to the history of its origins—that is, to reconstructing the complex historical movement across time and space of its ancestors along their long path of development. No one has ever written such a book before. Only the histories of individual tribes have been written, for example, the Slavs, the Rus', the Finno-Ugric peoples, the Tatars, the Bashkirs, the Jews, and so on...