History of the Ruthenians

History of the Ruthenians, or Little Russia, or more briefly History of the Ruthenians or History of the Rus', is an anonymous historico-political treatise, most likely written at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. It had a great influence on the formation of the Ukrainian national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries, and was even named "the most prominent historical work in Ukraine". It was written and originally published in pre-reform Russian, and describes the history of the Ruthenians and their state, Little Russia (Russian: Малой Россіи, in the book's terminology), from antiquity to 1769. It mostly focuses on the history of the Zaporizhian Sich and the Cossack Hetmanate.