Somehow it so happened that the word "Black Hundreds" ("Black Hundred") became abusive. But this phrase entered the Russian annals from the beginning of the XII century. Black, or zemstvo, hundreds of times defended our Fatherland in difficult times. It was so on the Kulikovo field, it was also in 1612, when, having gathered around Minin, they saved Moscow and all of Russia from the Poles and traitors. Isn't it time to rehabilitate them now, when Russia is again at the line beyond which there is an abyss of nothingness? The book of the outstanding thinker, writer, historian Vadim Kozhinov (1930-2001) is designed to fulfill such a mission.