Historical themes in the work of Franciszek Rawita-Gawroński Franсisek Rawita-Gawroński is a Polish writer, historian and publicist who played an important role in the formation of a negative image of a cossack in Poland. The interest in Ukrainian history, its traditions and culture is connected with the birthplace of the writer. Ukraine was a kind of homeland of Gawroński, it was considered only within the borders of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was the history of the relations between Ukraine and Poland that was the main theme in the author’s historical works of art.