22. Evropeiskaya Rossiya list 9, in: A.F. Marksa, Novyi Nastolnyi Atlas. Sankt Peterburg, 1905. COLL.S/T H.46
Here you see the western part of European Russia in green with neighbouring Austrian Galicia in brown (plus inset 'Agricultural production and mineral wealth in European Russia'). This new reference atlas appeared during the Revolution of 1905 that was spurred by the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. When the mutiny on naval vessels, the wave of strikes and the land occupations reached its peak in October tsar Nicolas II proclaimed basic civil rights, accepted the creation of political parties and instituted a parliament (Duma). The liberal intelligentsia received his manifesto with jubilation but revolutionary socialists denounced it as insufficient. The upheaval also led to the rise of All-Russian nationalism and anti-Jewish pogroms. Nevertheless, the tsar ended the prohibition on the Ukrainian language. Until then Ukrainian books had to be printed in Galicia, like Mykola Mikhnovsky's 'Independent Ukraine' in Lemberg/Lviv (1900). In 1906 there were already nine Ukrainian newspapers. However, the political reforms eroded quickly.