This book will change all your ideas about the past. This is a radical revision of the place and role of the Russian nation in the historical process. This is the true prehistory of Russia. The author elevates the ethnonym “Rus” (“dew”) to the name of the performers of religious hymns in the Aryan tradition, tracing the origin of the Russian people from the moment the Aryans were separated from the Indo-European tribes in the 5th–4th millennia BC. e. and inscribing ancient Russian history into the context of global development, starting from the era of Sumer and Ancient Egypt. The book examines in detail the genealogies of Russian gods (Baba Yaga, Yarila, Kolyada, Ivan, Marya, etc.) and mythological parallels that denoted the routes of settlement of the Aryans, and also many controversial issues of the formation of the Russian state, the prehistory of Kievan and Azov Rus, the Khazar problem and the notorious “Norman theory.”