About the book: year / Author of the book "From Hyperborea to Rus'. Unconventional history of the Slavs" German Markov presents an unexpected original opinion about the place of origin of European civilization and the role of the Slavs in this process. Having spent many years searching and systematizing materials for writing a book on the history of the Russian people, the author, based on evidence from historical sources and the works of modern researchers, came to reasonable conclusion that the territory of the central regions of Russia is the place where the entire European civilization was born about 50–40 thousand years ago. This fundamentally contradicts the prevailing academic stereotypes about wild and uneducated Rus', the culture and writing of which were brought from outside by the “civilized” Greeks and the Romans, and the Varangians helped create statehood. The facts that the author has carefully collected force us to radically reconsider the place and role of the Slavs in the entire world history. Whether to believe the author is up to you, dear reader! And those who doubt it can check the veracity of what is stated in the book by plunging, like the author, headlong into the sources used for several years.