About the book: 2008 / The greatness of our people is in the legends! In Russia, until the 16th century, almost the entire society remained illiterate. Chronicles appeared only at the end of the 14th century, and even then they poorly reflected historical activity. This is a national tradition: we care little about how things really happened. Much more valuable is the romantic vision of our (necessarily ancient and necessarily great) history. And although the author of this book provides real documents and facts confirming that there was no invasion of the Golden Horde, the Battle of the Ice is just a myth, Ivan Susanin never met the Poles , and Fanny Kaplan didn’t even lay a finger on Lenin, many will still exclaim: “I don’t believe it!” The legend lived, lives and will live!