“Yes, we are Scythians!” - said the poet, but many historians believe that we descend from another warlike tribe that once owned half of the Oikumene? - the formidable Sarmatians: “for many centuries, all of Eastern Europe was their patrimony and bore the name Sarmatia”; “before the invasion of the Slavs, our people were Sarmatian”; “The ancestors of the Russians are the Scythians and Sauromatians.” Clad from head to toe in impenetrable “crushed stone” armor (not only riders, but also horses), armed with four-meter spears and heavy swords, the Sarmatians were rightfully considered the best armored cavalry of the Ancient World - they are called the “first knights” and the “thunderstorm of the legions,” and the Romans borrowed from them not only armor and weapons, but even banners: in the late Empire, the golden eagles were replaced by Sarmatian dragons... Read the new novel from the author of the bestseller “Russian Legion of Constantinople” - an exciting historical action movie about the exploits of our ancestors, whose battle cry “RUS!” » terrified the steppe hordes, the hordes of Mithridates, and even the “invincible” Roman legions!