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Marko Kropyvnytskyi went down in the history of Ukrainian art as a great actor and talented director, playwright, and author of popular songs. On occasion, he himself created scenery for performances, being fond of painting. But his talent for playwriting was particularly deep. He is the author of dozens of plays.

The playwright's creative intention in the play Where There's Grain, There's Chaff was to depict the everyday life of a rural family without melodramatic effect or ethnographic decoration and to show the idiocy of rural life of the time. Kropyvnytskyi wanted the play to make the audience think about the reasons for this evil. This theme was completely new for Ukrainian drama at the time.