My Wormwood Path includes two books, both of which are especially dear to the author: “Wormwood of the Polovtsian Field” and “Without the Eternal Blue Sky.” The first, in 1994, brought Murad Adji to the vastness of the Great Steppe, to the roots of Russian history. The second, written in 2010, summed up his long “wormwood” path, generous in discoveries. For twenty years “Wormwood...” has been finding readers, but still, even reprinted several times, it remains a bibliographic rarity. When conceiving the next reissue, the author deliberately did not “improve” the text, did not supplement it, although he moved forward in developing the topic, as can be judged by the book “Without Eternal Blue Sky.” As a result, Aji did what was considered impossible to do just yesterday. He collected little-known pages of the distant past of Russia - a country, as it turns out, unknown to the reader. He spoke about the predecessor of Rus' - about the Great Steppe, the forgotten power of Desht-i-Kipchak.