Recently, our country has increased interest in Eurasianism, which originated in the emigrant environment in the twenties of the XX century. One of the prominent representatives of the concept of Eurasianism was Georgy Vladimirovich Vernadsky (1887-1973), a culturologist, a major historian of the Russian diaspora. His book "The Outline of Russian History" served as a kind of foundation for the development of theories of followers of Eurasianism. In this work, the author discusses the place and role of the Russian people in its historical "development."