The history of the Tatars is inextricably linked with the history of both Russia and Eurasia. “For the sake of truth, and not for the sake of pseudoscientific, political or some other conjuncture, I, a Russian person, have been defending the Tatars from slander all my life. They are in our blood, in our history, in our language, in our worldview... whatever the real differences with the Russians, the Tatars are a people not outside, but inside us,” wrote the outstanding writer, historian and ethnologist Lev Gumilyov. Telling the true story of the Tatars is the main task of the authors Gali Enikeev and Shihab Kitabchi.