Fallacious images of imperial periphery

The review is devoted to a collection of memoirs Russian officers the mid-19th century, compiled by Mikhail Yu. Dronov. author comes conclusion that these memories not only describe real Rusyns, but also broadcast, sometimes far from reality, image imperial periphery (although Galicia and Ugrian Rus’, which wrote about, were part Empire directly, they bordered on it, culturally associated with due significant share East Slavic population). degree distortion images was different. One even attributed “Carpathian Slavs” Slovaks. Another officer tried decipher long speech alleged Rusyn addressed him in Hungarian, phrase “Wallachian faith” understood, etc. notes similar cases Russians ignoring basic information about peripheral regions empire observed other places, for example, Caucasus, gave rise series anecdotes Cossack regions. A publication collections areas seems be an interesting promising area research.