About the book: 2012 / Hundreds of books have been written on the history of Ukraine. Among their authors are monarchists, communists, and nationalists. But no one could really explain how a good third of the Old Russian state became a Polish colony. Where did the princes, boyars and nobles of Little Rus' disappear to? How realistic was the possibility of the reunification of Great and Little Rus' in the 14th or 15th centuries? Could Kyiv have celebrated the 350th anniversary of the union of the Ukrainian people with the Turkish people in 2004? This and much more is described in the monograph by A. Shirokorad “How Little Rus' became the Polish outskirts».