The Russian National Party or Russian People's Party (Russian: Русская народная партия), founded in 1900,[1] was a political party created by Western Ukrainian Russophiles in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria to represent their interests.
[2] It represented radicalization among western Ukrainian Russophiles towards the end of the 19th and beginning of the twentieth centuries, promoting the standard literary Russian language without local linguistic features and conversion to Russian Orthodoxy.
[4] Its members actively helped the Russian administration during its rule in western Ukraine during the first world war.
[3] The party remained active in Czechoslovakia.
RNP leader Anton Beskid [cs; ru; rue] became governor of Carpathian Ruthenia in 1924.