Who were the Varangians in the chronicles and why was Hitler a Normanist? What is the origin of the Norman theory and why do its modern supporters hate the brilliant Russian scientist Lomonosov so much? How is Russian history falsified? The reader will find answers to these and many other questions in the book by Doctor of Historical Sciences Vyacheslav Fomin, a leading specialist in the Russian Middle Ages. Both friends and scientific opponents call him “the modern leader of anti-Normanism.” The author in his work deals a crushing blow to the Norman theory of the origin of the Russian state, polemicizes with its adherents and harshly criticizes the “king” of Russian Normanists, Lev Klein.