The author of the bestsellers “Russian Tsar Batu” and “Khan Rurik: the initial history of Rus'”, Konstantin Penzev in his new book talks about the Asian origins of Rus' and who benefited from the myth of the “Tatar-Mongol yoke”. Why in Rus' in the 15th–16th centuries everything Tatar was fashionable: clothes, names, weapons, and the Tatar language became the second state language along with Russian? Who and why destroyed Russian-Tatar unity and turned Russia from a Eurasian into a European country? The author convincingly argues that the European vector along which Russia has been moving since the 18th century is just a deviation from its historical vocation - to create a great Eurasian civilization. Find out how and why the prophecy of the poet Alexander Blok will come true, who predicted to Europeans that their “skins will go to Chinese tambourines.”