Historical novel dedicated to the era of the VI century - the time of the unification of disparate tribes of the eastern Slavic "Ants" to fight the Khazars and Byzantium. Connected by the community of speech, everyday life and culture, forced to defend themselves against the robber raids of nomads, the Dnieper Slavs are aware of the need to act together. In this novel, Valentin Ivanov appears not only as a writer, but also as a researcher-historian. "Russia is primordial" book dedicated to the beginning of the foundation of the Kyiv state.