History of Rus or Little Russia (in Russian: Исторія Русовъ, или Малой Россіи) or History of Rus (Ukraine: русів Історія) is a book about the history of the Rus people (Ukrainians) and their state ( Ukraine or Little Russia) from antiquity to 1769. The book was written as a political essay in the late eighteenth century by an anonymous author, probably by the orthodox bishop Hryhorii Konyski, and first published in 1846 in Moscow, in Russian by Ósyp Bodianski.
History of Rus focuses on two ideas. First, highlight the historical difference and antagonism between Rus (Ukraine) and Muscovy (Russia). Second, accentuate the historical continuity of the Rus people (Ukrainians) from the medieval era of Kievan Rus to the state of the Modern Age, the Cossacks.
Despite numerous errors of fact and exaggeration, the History of the Rus had a great impact on the erudition of Ukraine and on the works of prominent writers such as the Ukrainian Nikolai Gogol and Tarmas Shevchenko as well as in the formation of the speech Ukrainian national of the nineteenth century.
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