About the book: 2005 / The new book by A. T. Fomenko and G. V. Nosovsky directly continues their recent book “The King of the Slavs,” dedicated to the final dating of the era of Christ XII century AD Thus, it is the second book in a series of studies undertaken by the authors in 2003 - 2004 with the aim of reconstructing the era of the XII - XIII centuries - the prehistory of the Great Russian Christian Empire of the XIV - XVI centuries. The content of the book is entirely based on the NEW CHRONOLOGY, developed and published by the authors in 1975-2003. The book begins with a number of new, extremely interesting astronomical datings that were obtained in 2004 and have not been previously published. The first chapters complement and deepen the reconstruction of the era of Christ, proposed in the book “Tsar of the Slavs”. In particular, secular versions of the biographies of John the Baptist have been studied in detail for the first time. It is unexpected that John the Baptist appears on the pages of secular chronicles, for example, in the image of the “ancient” Cicero. The myth of the Argonauts, Jason, Medea and other heroes of “Ancient” Greece is studied in detail. The “ancient” heroes Antony appear before the reader in a new and unexpected light and Cleopatra. The following describes in detail the first decades AFTER CHRIST. In the Scaligerian erroneous chronology, they correspond to an era supposedly two thousand years ago. According to the new chronology, the events took place much later, about 800 years ago. As the authors discovered, the following famous heroes of our history were active in those days: Apostle Paul. It turned out that he was directly related to the Crusades. The Great Russian Prince Svyatoslav, the “warrior prince.” He, as it turns out, is the “ancient” Achilles, the famous hero of the Trojan War. The famous heroes of the German-Scandinavian epic are Siegfried and Brunhild. God O'din, the Nibelungs, the Valkyries and the "Rhine Gold" - all these legends are now beginning to take on unexpected, real shapes. The famous legend about the "ancient" Aeneas, who founded the Roman kingdom, and about his descendants - Romulus and Remus. It is directly related to the beginning of the Russian state. And finally, the notorious legend about the calling of the Varangians to Rus', controversy about which still does not subside. Now it became clear who the Varangians were and where they came from. And why exactly they founded Rus'. And - what is Russia? Read about all this in this book.