“I’ll tell you a secret that if Russia is saved, it will only be as a Eurasian power...” - these words of the famous historian, geographer and ethnologist Lev Nikolaevich Gumilyov, crowning his many years of research, are known. Involving a number of psychological and psychoanalytic ideas, the use of an array of facts of our recent history, which in no way fit into traditional historiographical concepts, deep acquaintance with theological issues - all this allowed the author of the proposed book to create an original historical and psychological concept, according to which Russia, in the most important way, throughout the 20th century went from victory to victory. One of the basic ideas of this concept is the stratification of peoples according to a psychological principle, which L. N. Gumilyov mentioned in his works on ethnogenesis only in passing and mainly intuitively. Meanwhile, without taking into account this process, the most important thing in world history remains incomprehensible. For a wide range of readers deeply interested in the problems of history, psychology and ethnogenesis. 2nd edition, stereotypical (2004). The first edition of the book was published in 1999 under the title “Russia: the ins and outs of love.”