 The work mixed statistical data with emotional condemnation of the Tsarist regime and its Russification policies, discussed the abolition of serfdom in 1861 and accused the regime of economic and agricultural downturn, and idealized the policies of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (e.g.religious tolerance or the Statutes of Lithuania).The work was modeled after Kalinka's "Galicya i Kraków pod panowaniem austryackiem" (Galicia and Kraków under the Austrian Rule) about the Austrian Partition published in 1853.