The origins of Russia, in which, perhaps, its incomprehensible secret is hidden, were sought both among the cold rocks of Scandinavia, and in the endless Scythian steppes, unpredictable in their separate passionarity, and in Belorussian Polesie, and even in Asia Minor, in the great empire of the Hittites. The author of the book, a Russian emigrant who has experienced the tragedy of Russian history of the 20th century, devotes his research to a little-studied period of the history of Ancient Russia - pre-legal time.