Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the mid-1870s to 1880s in the Kistyakovsky’s Diaries

Solving national problems is an important element of the stability of society. In this essue, the subject of the study is the problem of the national identity of Ukraine in the last quarter of the 19th century. The Ukrainian question has been studied actively in recent years, in that fact that the matter of the Ukrainian people's individuality is especially acute now. The study is based on the Alexander Kistyakovsky’s (lawyer and ukrainian public figure) diaries. Political relations between empires and their national margin regions is an important issue that deserves the attention of historians. Not worth completely identify a single region with the Empire, to which it belongs, but also it is important to study its own historical path. In this study, the following questions will be considered: what are the distinguishing features of the political relations between the Russian Empire and the Ukraine during the specified period? (1874-1885)? What are the reasons for the emergence of the nationalist movement in Ukraine? How did the problem of the national question reflect the life of different strata of society? How political and public figures asses the place of the Ukraine under the Russian Empire?