This book is a dialogue of historians, geographers, literary critics, writers and publicists about the time and space of Sub-Austrian Galicia from the end of the 18th century. before the First World War, the collapse of the Danube Monarchy. First of all, the historical heritage of the "long" 19th century is shown. At that time, as part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Galicia became an oil Klondike and Eldorado - one of the world's centers of "black gold" production. At the end of the 19th - at the beginning of the 20th century. the attention of many politicians and international companies was drawn to it: for a certain time, the bank became an object of competition between representatives of big capital. The first newspaper in Ukrainian lands appeared in the capital of Halychyna, an airship, a railway train and a tram were launched, and a kerosene lamp was invented based on Drohobych oil. The first Ukrainian parties, scientific societies, student associations, cooperative structures, paramilitary and scout organizations, balneological resorts, football and hockey teams appeared there. Carpathian region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. became a Piedmont not only for Ukrainians, but also for Poles, who gained invaluable management experience in the Galician Diet and the Vienna Parliament| homeland for Galician Jews, who also wanted political freedoms, national-state independence. Such a trip to Austrian/sub-Austrian Galicia will allow one to better understand the tragedy and greatness of the history of not only this region since the end of the 18th century. before the First World War, but also all of Ukraine. Ukraine, which has always sought unity, peace, economic and cultural and educational progress.