Where does the Motherland begin?.. Everyone will answer in their own way, but will certainly touch upon the topic of ancestors. A people is a chain of generations welded together. If at least one link falls out, then the connection of times is broken, and then it is completely impossible to make out where the people came from and what kind of tribe they are. The history of the Russian people is a vivid example of this. A. Abrashkin, the author of the book “Mediterranean Rus',” turning to ancient times, seeks and finds his unique image of the Motherland. Conventionally, it can be called Scythian or Mediterranean Russia, inhabited by Aryans, according to the author, the ancestors of today's Russians. Not claiming to be strictly scientific and based largely on the author's premonitions and guesses, the book, nevertheless, is interesting with its unusual view and bold interpretation of well-known chronicles and literary monuments.