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Viktor Domontovych is the literary pseudonym of the Ukrainian writer, historian, and archaeologist V. Petrov (1894-1969). The "Doctor with a Paradox," as Mykola Zerov called him, was a master of intellectual prose, and he was also a talented scientist, polymath, and Soviet intelligence officer. Domontovych's life hides many secrets and could be a brilliant subject for a biographical novel. It is all the more interesting to read his works, which fascinate with the vicissitudes of the plot, the mood, intelligent piquancy, and the unexpectedness of a thought or phrase : "Alina and Kostomarov" - a novelised love story of M. Kostomarov and A. Kragelska, who had to endure difficult twists and turns of fate on their way to happiness; and ten stories whose characters are waiting for the Messiah in "The Apostles", fighting the plague in "Untitled", teaching children in "The Princes", fighting in "Revenge", etc.

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