About the book: 2015 / This book, as the title says, is about Ukrainians and Ukraine, but to an even greater extent - about Russian people and Russia, about their past, present and future. And most importantly - about the foolishness of the Russians, out of a sense of their inherent goodwill and by virtue of tradition, considering Ukrainians as a fraternal people. This is our initial mistake. Russians and Ukrainians are two completely different peoples and in many ways antipodal peoples. They were formed at different times, under different historical circumstances and in different parts of the state of the German conquerors, called Russia after the name of this tribe of conquerors, led by Rurik (Roerich, Chrondrik, as he was called in Western European chronicles). All this is written in black and white in The Tale of Bygone Years. But the interest of the ruling class and glasses, unknown by whom, have been put on us, have been preventing us from seeing completely clear things for more than 800 years. But the idea of ​​a triune Russian people, including Great Russians, Little Russians and Belarusians, arose only some 350 years ago, and it was planted on the Russian Tsar and the Russian elite by the Ukrainians in their selfish interests. But it was included in the first Russian history textbooks, also written by Ukrainians, and thanks to their cultural hegemony under the first tsars of the Romanov dynasty, it established itself as a dogma, uncritically accepted by all leading Russian historians, and dominates the minds of Russians to this day. Russia's policy towards Ukraine has always been erroneous, based on a false dogma, and was invariably a failure, which prematurely claimed the lives of millions of Russian people. Russia has annexed vast territories of Russian lands to the initially tiny Ukraine. This inflated the bubble of “Greater Ukraine” as an independent state claiming an exclusive role in world politics. And only the frenzied anti-Russian hysteria now raging in Ukraine opened the eyes of many Russian people to the eternally accumulated hatred of Ukrainians towards Russia. It's time for us to look at Ukrainians without rose-colored glasses. I would like this book to play a role in this important matter. At the same time, I personally love Ukraine, despite its hatred of Russia, because the Ukrainian people have considerable merits. It’s just that he has been unlucky in history so far, and he has turned out to be treacherous, incapable of negotiations, and devoid of the instinct of statehood. They remained an economic people, with a dream of a “little garden,” while the Russian people became a political people, with a cosmic worldview. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.