Rus' people
History of Ruthenians or Little Russia (': "Istoriya Rusov ili Maloy Rossiy") also known as History of the Rus' People is the anonymous historico-political treatise, most likely written on the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries. It had a great influence on the formation of the Ukrainian national identity and was even named "the most prominent historical work in Ukraine". It was written and originally published in Russian and describes the history of the Rus' people (Ruthenians) and their state, Little Russia (', in the terminology of the book), from antiquity to 1769. It mostly focuses on the history of the Zaporizhian Sich and the Cossack Hetmanate.