Tadeusz Bujnicki recalls "A Romantic Picture of Ukraine," seeing it as a historic vision based on the tradition of the "Ukrainian school" in Polish literature represented by Antoni Malczewski, J6zef Bohdan Zaleski, Juliusz Slowacki, and others, and promoted by the "Cracovian school" of history (Karol Szajnocha amd Michal Bobrzynski).