The history of our ancestors until the 9th century from the Nativity of Christ for a long time remained a mystery, a "white spot," the object of speculation and sometimes fantastic theories. The famous writer Andrei Vorontsov, based on the latest discoveries in archeology, anthropology, genetics and linguistics, is trying to reconstruct it. The book refers to a stone found in 1977 in the Austrian town of Grafenstein with fragments of an inscription of the 2nd century AD, which belonged to the minks. Noriki, according to the testimony of Nestor the chronicler in The Tale of Bygone Years, were the direct ancestors of the Eastern Slavs, and, as it turns out, very ancient. According to historians of ancient Rome, Norics existed at least a thousand years before the Slavs, according to the "German historical school" prevailing in Europe, appeared on the continent. And the Atestine (Paleovenetic) culture to which the Noric belonged is older than Noric for another 500 years. The book of A. Vorontsov proves the direct continuity between the Old Russian and Paleovenet cultures.