“Ancient Turks” is the famous work of the brilliant Russian historian, geographer and thinker Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov (1912-1992), dedicated to the relatively little-studied period of world history of the 6th-8th centuries. n. e., which coincided with the formation and flourishing of the Great Turkic Khaganate. The author's analysis of the ethnic, political and religious aspects of the existence of this power is presented in the author's characteristic fascinating and imaginative manner of narration.