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The Carpathians are the most mysterious part of Ukraine, home to an incredible, fantastically interesting and unique branch of our people - the Hutsuls. They have always been distinguished by their sincere souls, wild and unrestrained temperament, and have contributed to a number of phenomenal phenomena and events, creating and recording unforgettable outlines of those events in songs, fairy tales and legends of the Carpathian region. The most striking phenomenon of recent centuries was and still is the Carpathian opryshky. The glorious history of these fighters against social and national exploitation lasted in the Carpathians for almost half a millennium, since this part of Ukraine was conquered by foreign horsemen.

Yulian Tselevych's work is the first significant professional study of the phenomenon of opryshkos by a Ukrainian historian in the late nineteenth century. The author objectively covers the phenomenon of armed resistance in Carpathian Rus, analyses its origins and nature, as well as the reasons for the extinction of this resistance movement of the enslaved Rus (Ukrainian) community against the background of the greed of the ruling foreigners, on the basis of valuable historical sources. Bypassing the apotheosis of people's admiration for their national heroes-avengers, the author depicts the greatness of the personality of the most prominent leader of the Hutsul region, the favourite of his land, Oleksa Dovbush (Dovbushchuk), to whom folk legends attributed chivalrous deeds even after his death.