Avtor reshil problemu, nad kotoroy nauka bilas' dva stoletiya, - raskryl stikhoslozhenie Slova o polku," chisto russkoe, nigde bolee v mire ne obnaruzhennoe. On rasskazyvaet o Kievskoy Rusi, o pokhode knyazya Igorya na polovtsev, o sud'be poemy. Dan eye tekst s podrobnymi raz"yasneniyami. Kniga nuzhna kazhdomu shkol'niku, studentu i vsem, kto interesuetsya rodnoy istoriey i literaturoy. Stat'i avtora byli sensatsiey, no knigu, nesmotrya na odobrenie vedushchikh spetsialistov, ne udavalos' izdat' 33 goda iz-za protivodeystviya tekh, ch'i uchyenye trudy teper' okazalis' chepukhoy. I vsye zhe zamolchat' otkrytie ne smogli, izlozhenie ego vklyucheno v Entsiklopediyu "Slova o polku Igoreve."