In the new book of the honored journalist of Ukraine, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Danylo Yanevskyi, the story of the events that took place on the territory of modern Ukraine after its occupation by the Russian Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in 1781–1914 continues. This story is based on the generalized conclusions of Belarusian, Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian scientists, who showed that the unification policy of the Russian occupiers was aimed at destroying the cultural, national, religious, and linguistic identity of the occupied peoples, while in the lands that came under Austrian rule, social, economic, political, and cultural development of the population took place. But there were always free and caring people who at different times tried to make Ukraine an "ideal" legal state for all the peoples who inhabited it.