In the recent Soviet past, domestic historians had one Customer in the person of the state. The state paid historians and rightly demanded from them results that were in line with state interests. Currently, the state monopoly is a thing of the past; historians have other customers, each with their own interests. Historians have always lied, since the times of the Egyptian pharaohs and Alexander the Great, mercantile interest forced them to do so. Nevertheless, outstanding historians lived in different eras. In Soviet times, one can name V. Tarle, B. Rybakov, L. Gumilyov; for some reason, post-Soviet Russia did not give birth to anyone like these giants. There is a simple answer to this. The foreign customer is not interested in the development of our applied and fundamental science. Grants are issued only to support dubious projects, which we will discuss later, and to pump the results of Soviet science abroad. For two decades, the state has not had the funds to systematically and sufficiently finance domestic science; now this is hampered by corruption. In these conditions, the Russian population has heard of historians who, during the “troubled” years, “rose up” on foreign grants. Like all historians who carry out orders, they lie. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the Customer does not provide money for serious research, we have to dodge, using “pasture.”