The book of Yu.V. Krupnov is devoted to an urgent problem - the need to build a new Russia as a special power between the West and the East, but not belonging to either the West or the East. The book shows the unique northeastern (Nord-Ost) vector of Russian history using the example of the most striking moments of the thousand-year history of Russian statehood: the creation of Northeastern New Russia by Andrei Bogolyubsky; the revolutionary coups of 1917; the development of Siberia and the inclusion of foreigners in Russian statehood; struggle for Russian America and the Far East, etc. The author is trying to formulate and substantiate the doctrine of Russia of the XXI century.