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of the 19 positions of autocratic Russian chauvinism,
cent. asserting that from the Carpathians to
Kamchatka there was were living only “Rus”
people with the only “Pan Rus” language and
culture. To their mind, there was not a
separate notion as Ukrainian people. They
denied the right for the Ukrainian language to
exist. They wrote their works in “Yazychiye”,
a mixture of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish and
Old Slavic. D. Zubrytsky and A. Dobryansky
were their ideologists. They edited newspaper
“Word” (“Slovo”), magazines “Halychyna
Resident” (“Halychanyn”) and “Lada’. Yakiv
Holovatsky, a former member of ‘Rus Triad”,
joined them. In 1867 he emigrated to Russia,
where he became the head of
Archaeographical commission in Vienna.
Narodovtsi (populists) formed a social and
political movement of young intellectuals of
western Ukraine. They were adherents of
development on the social basis. They
devoted themselves to Ukrainian people’s
interests. Volodymyr Shashkevych (M.
Shashkevych’s son) and Fedir Zarevych were
among its representatives. In 1862 they
founded a student community in Lviv. It
became one of the first centres of
Ukrainophiles of the region. Such periodicals
as “Goal” (“Meta”), “Vechornytsi”, ‘Nyva”,
“Rusalka” were opened. A few public
libraries were opened too. Their stands had
much in common with those of Ukrainiphiles
on eastern Ukrainian lands.

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