the byzantine thinker semyon solonsky asked himself a question.he people these are people who have a common history. here, in fact, this is one of the answers to the question of how to make ukrainians out of russians. they need to write the history of ukraine the history of ukraine and ukrainians for the austrian authorities was composed by mikhail grushevsky university mikhail grushevsky emigrated to galicia in 1890 in russian scientific circles. he was already known for his rather specific views on the history of kievan rus and for his extremely controversial historical theory, but for the austrian hungarian authorities it was precisely this theory that was rejected by a very timely and very suitable dark work. history of ukraine rus grushevsky wrote in lvov they explained yes there was kievan rus, but then it also became muscovite rus or lithuanian, and so that there was no confusion, kievan rus should be where the ancient ukrainians lived to call ukraine it was an actual substitution of concepts, but students studied from hrushevsky's books an