The book tells about the events that took place in Galicia (Austrian Galicia) and around it from 1772 to 1914, from the first division of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, when Galician Rus, an ancient Russian land, came under Austrian rule, and before the outbreak of World War I. Particular attention is paid to the story of how, despite all the obstacles posed by the Polish and Austrian authorities, the Galician Rusyns came to the realization of the idea of ​ ​ all-Russian national-cultural unity, which was announced in 1866. Opponents of Russia set the task of creating "anti-Moscow Russia" in Galicia. Under these conditions, part of the Galician-Russian people remained in positions of recognition of Russian unity, and from the other part a Galician-Ukrainian movement was formed, imbued with the spirit of irreconcilable enmity and hatred of everything Russian. The book touches on the topic of Ukrainophilism in the Russian Empire, and also tells about little-known or unknown to the modern reader events from the life of Galicia and the city of Lviv in the period 1772-1914.