The pre-Christian history of the Slavs is full of mysteries and omissions. And almost no documents from that era have survived. One of the most unusual finds of that time, undoubtedly, was the “Book of Veles” - the oldest history of the Slavs, written on wooden tablets in runic writing. Official science was very skeptical about the find, they even tried to declare it a fake, since the information contained in the book presented the history of the origin of the Slavic ethnic group in a completely different light... The famous Samara writer-historian Dmitry Agalakov in a new, exciting novel offers his own, original version of the creation and the further fate of the “Veles Book”, which lasted for more than a thousand years!..