W sprawie ruskiej Platona Kosteckiego

This article contains a critical edition of the manuscript by Plato Kostecki entitled W sprawie ruskiej from 1863 placed in the Vasyl Stefanyk Lviv National Scientific Library of Ukraine named by W. Stefanyk. This text, probably never published, is an interesting analysis of the awareness of the Galician Ruthenians at the beginning of the 1860s. The author not only shows ideas and political attitudes popular among Ruthenian elites but also he undertakes the task of searching for answers to the question about the causes for Ruthenians’ dislike towards Poles and he suggests solutions aiming at changing this state of affairs. In the critical edition of this manuscript attempts have been made to discuss such issues as the author, references to the manuscript in literature on the subject, the problem of dating, most important theses, reasons for not publishing the manuscript, editorial issues.