The thirtieth anniversary during that a tsar Peter Alekseevich conducted the transformations influenced on motion of all world history. The circumstances of his personal life, mental device, predilections and phobias, became part of national matrix and today perceived by the world as something is native Russian. And if Russian literature "went out from a гоголевской overcoat", then the Russian state wears the Peter jackboots until now.It book about that, how Russians studied not to follow by history, and to create her, as something turned out for them, and something no. And why.