The Russian XIX century is meaningful for us today's at least that exactly at this time - in спорах and conversations, in the mutual understanding or непонимании - a that public language and that system of characters and presentations that we was produced, freely or involuntarily, fortunately or in harm itself, we continue to use till today. The series of essays and notes, presented in this book, expose some of key plots Russian to intellectual history of that time, related to the question about a place and setting of Russia - id est about her possible future conceivable through the past.XIX a century is justly named the eyelid of "национализмов" - and the Russian empire is part of this European process. The essays devoted are collected in a book, from one side, to the theoretical questions of modern nationalism, from other are histories of forming and development Ukrainian national motion in XIX - beginning of the XX century. The last is the more interesting and meaningful from the historical point of view, what complication of processes of нациестроительства allows to see on crossing of row of imperial spaces, competitions between different national projects and their co-operations and oppositions with imperial unit.An author of collection is a leading specialist on the Russian public idea of the XIX century, chief research worker Academia Kantiana Institute of humanity/pls UGH the name of Канта (Kaliningrad), candidate of philosophical sciences Andrey Aleksandrovich Тесля.