About the book: 2013 / The author of this work offers his answer to the question “Where did the Russian land come from?” Sklavins, Ants, Venets, Slavs... The origin of these ethnonyms, the location of the Slavic ancestral home, the emergence of ancient Kyiv, the mysteries of the Russian Kaganate and the mysterious Artania - this is just a small part of what the reader can learn from the new book by E. Kutuzov. And of course, the author turns in his research to criticism of the “Norman theory” and the question of the origin of Russian statehood. The book re-examines the personalities of the first Russian rulers, debunks many myths and gives a final answer to the question: who are the Varangians?