A little known chronicle (among the domestic researches) is described in the publication. It may become an important source for studying Ukrainian-Austrian relationship, especially for the period of the 90-s of the XX century.

The author tried to show the main principles, directions and content of Nazi indoctrination of the population in the military zone of Ukraine by using as the example the newspaper “Sums’kyi Visnyk”.

After analyzing the documentary sources the author makes an attempt of tracing the process of forming the streams of Russian diplomacy concerning settling “The Eastern question” in the spring of 1876.