This book offers us a new look at the history of the state, which we used to call Kievan Rus. Based on the now lost Moravian Chronicle (dated around the 14th century), Scandinavian sagas, Iranian legends, testimonies of German historians, as well as books by Greek and Latin authors. Alexey Bychkov makes a striking conclusion: there was no Russia! And the "truth" we learned from school textbooks is nothing more than legends and fairy tales.