The long-awaited NEW BOOK from the author of the bestseller “10 thousand years of Russian history”, which went through 7 reprints and sold record copies! Continuation of the polemic with the “scientific” officialdom, which distorts and denigrates our past. The whole truth about the legendary Prince Rurik, who is called “the founder of the Russian state.” But in fact, Rurik did not come to “empty space” - to the 9th century AD. e. Slavic civilization has flourished for more than one millennium, having long ago formed a special way of life, which was fundamentally different from the Western one and was based not on “law and order,” but on justice and will. And Rurik was not at all called upon to “own us” - but was simply hired as an “effective manager”, “equidistant” from all local clans, and therefore capable of safeguarding the interests of the people. Today’s “Westernizers” who worship European pseudo-“democracy” do not want to understand the main thing - from time immemorial in Rus' the government did not “own the people”, but was its hired worker: an objectionable ruler could not only be kicked out of the princely choir with a kick in the ass, but also completely “tear it like a hot water bottle”, tying it to two birch trees. Remember the execution of Prince Igor or the fate of Alexander Nevsky and his father, who were repeatedly expelled from Novgorod! The same would have happened to Prince Rurik, if he had not justified the trust of the Slavs... Refuting Western myths and Russophobic slander, this book restores the true history of our people, in which Rurik’s epic was not the “beginning of beginnings,” but only a passing chapter of the thousand-year chronicle!