Lectures on the history of Western Russia.

Lectures on the history of Western Russia.
M.: Type. Bakhmeteva, 1864. — 393, 41, [4] S., [1] L. table. Hardcover combination with gold lettering on the spine of the name and the owner's initials "M. A.". Not complete condition: missing title page; worn binding; owner's inscription; tear of the pasting at the base, dented.

[Mikhail Osipovich (Iosifovich) Koyalovich (20 September [2 October] 1828, Grodno province— 23 August [4 September] 1891, Saint Petersburg) was a Belarusian — Russian historian, political publicist and publisher. Leading representative of the "West Russian" historical school.

Published in periodicals-the newspaper "Day", the magazine" Citizen", revealing the topics of Russian-Polish relations, Western Russian history and modernity. Together with his son Mikhail, he published the political and literary weekly magazine Pravda (since 1888).

Koyalovich's research focuses on the history of Uniatism, the Church and General history of the Western region, the history of Russian identity, and the historiography of Russian history. Russian Russian was an adherent and one of the ideologists of Western Russianism, defended the point of view that Belarusians are an original part of the Russian people on a par with the great Russians and little Russians, developed national-monarchical ideas, the idea of the unity of the Russian people. Koyalovich considered the Lithuanians a branch ("tribe") of the West Russian people, along with the Belarusians and little Russians, while calling them the" Russian guard regiment"that protected Russia from the Prussian and Livonian knights." Russian Russian people live here, and the local Belarusian dialect is a "bridge" between the little Russian and great Russian dialects, according to Koyalovich, the entire history of the North-Western region is Russian history.

Koyalovich was an opponent of historical objectivism: "Don't trust deceptive objectivity, there is less of it in history; in history, almost everything is subjective." The historian considered Slavophil subjectivism to be the best of "subjectivisms": "it is better than others, "the Professor argued, " both in the popular and scientific sense, and even in the sense of possibly correct understanding and assimilation of universal civilization." Russian Russian historical science was well liked in Slavophil circles for his major research "the History of Russian self-consciousness based on historical monuments and scientific works". So, Ivan Aksakov called this work "the most excellent and extremely useful work", and Lev Tikhomirov believed that every thinking person should have this book. In 1865, his work "Historical research on Western Russia" was published, which is of a propaganda nature.

His essay " Readings on the history of Western Russia "(3rd ed. - St. Petersburg, 1884) by the Ministry of public education was awarded the Grand prize named after Emperor Peter the Great.]