About the book: 2012 / The history of the Russians is the history of a successful people who have done enormous civilizational work on one sixth of the earth’s land and created their own world. The book will talk about the Russian world, because Russians have the same sacred right to comprehend their history as other peoples. And the space for comprehension is as vast as the space that the Russian people managed to traverse. We live in the largest country in the world. But the history of how the Russians conquered space is forgotten and silent. Films are not made about the people who created Russia; the exploits of our pioneers are consigned to oblivion. But many primitive clichés about the “aggressive colonial policy of tsarism” have been introduced into the public consciousness. The author of this book breaks the silence and breaks the clichés. In the book you will find answers to the questions: how Russian colonization differed from the Western one, how farmers reclaimed the steppe, why the Russians went to the mountains, how the Volga became the great Russian river, what preceded the conquest of Siberia, how the most difficult paths turned out to be the fastest for Russians, how the collapse of the USSR turned out for Russia, is the colonization of modern Russia in danger??