Putin's predecessors. As in the nineteenth century, the Russian kings planted "scraps" and "only people", however, they were repelled in Kiev.

The opening of the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky, four days before the first celebration of the anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, July 11 (23) 1888 (photo: Museum of History of Kyiv) Celebration of the 900th anniversary The fictional united All -Russian people, to whom together with the Russians and Belarusians, Ukrainians should enter.

The royal idea was not liked by everyone from the Orthodox Tatars, who have been named Great Russian! Police of Kyiv withdrew the postcards with this call in the city on July 11 (23) 1888-a few days before the extortions on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. The proclamations were apparently made somewhere in Galicia, which was then part of Austral-Hungary. Because they were concluded in French and Rusyn, and the latter in the Russian Empire was banned by laws.

This new -born holiday was agreed by the advisers of the Russian Tsar Alexander III, who after the murder of his father took the imperial throne and re -threw it to his subjects of Orthodoxy - autocracy - nationality. It appeared as opposed to democratic European foundations Freedom - equality - brotherhood as king Nicholas I, half a century before these events. With the church and monarchy power in this Russian triad, everything was more or less clear.

But the "nationality" constantly sounded reproaches - they say, the king rules a population that will not become a people. That is, a socio-political subject. And he hindered in this the vast expanses of the empire with a rather blurred self -identification of people in certain parts. At that time, the kings thought that their portraits in state institutions and Orthodox holidays and the fact of their reverence already determines the true belonging to the Russian Empire.