Konstantin Penzev is a famous historical researcher and author of sensational historical hypotheses in the spirit of Lev Gumilyov. His new book “Princes of Ros: Aryan Blood” traces the ethnogenesis of the Great Russian people and makes a well-founded conclusion that the Great Russians are a special Aryan people, a separate branch of the Slavs, whose youth was spent in the vastness of Eurasia - from the Great Wall of China to the forests between the Oka and Volga. Their family ties with the mysterious “Khinovs” from “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and the “Khinovins” of “Zadonshchina” are considered. And through them - with the Chingizid Tatars, fair-haired, blue-eyed and red-bearded good fellows from the Great Steppe. And also with the Turks, Huns and other Aryan peoples, who, each in their time, decided the destinies of the world. “Yes, we are Scythians, yes, we are Asians,” as if the author were repeating after the poet and continues: “Yes, this blood flows through our arteries and veins, and it would be foolish to refuse such a magnificent relationship. We are Slavs. Mostly Asians, but it’s stupid to be ashamed of that. The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. And it will set in the West, and we will wait for a new sunrise. Patience is our middle name.”