The authors of this book answer the question: "What happened before the official history of Russia?" What peoples swept through our land in the distant past and influenced us? Many ancient peoples disappeared, disappeared into other peoples and civilizations. But nothing dissolves without a trace. There are always echoes from the past, you just need to learn how to catch them. For the first time, under one cover, information is presented about all the largest archaeological finds related to the prehistory of our country and about all tribes that have united into the Russian nation in the future.