The new book by Daniil Yanevsky, Doctor of History, journalist, continues the story of the events that took place on the territory of modern Ukraine in 1781-1914. after its occupation by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg monarchy in the 18th century. This story is based on the generalized conclusions of Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian scholars, who showed that the unifying policy of the Russian occupiers was aimed at destroying the cultural, national, religious, linguistic identity of the occupied peoples, while in the lands under Habsburg rule. social, economic and political development of the population was assisted. But there have always been free and independent people who at different times tried to make Ukraine an "ideal" rule of law for all the peoples who inhabited it.