In the 18thcentury, Muscovy appropriated the nameRus’and renamed itself theRussian Empire. Together with Prussia and Austria, they partitioned Poland three times, after which Austria got Galicia (with Lviv region in it) in the West, while Muscovites grabbed the rest of Ukraine. The Cossack h...
Calling themselves the Concert of Europe, they also redrew the map of Europe by shifting territories around, declared that unilateral violation of a treaty was the equivalent of a war crime, opposed slavery, and recognized the rights of Polish minorities in Austria, Prussia, and Russia (rather ...