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The historical poem «The Dnipro Stones» was written in Latin in the early seventeenth century, but remained unknown to Ukrainian researchers until the 1980s. It was first published in Ukrainian translation in 1988 by Volodymyr Lytvynov. There is little documentary evidence about the author of the poem, Ivan (Jan) Dombrowski. In 900 lines of poetry, he tells the story of the region, advises on how to win the sympathy of the people there, and sets out a programme of action: to rebuild the devastated Kyiv, which was once the capital of a giant state. The chronological presentation of historical events begins in 430 and is dedicated to the glorification of the past greatness of Ukraine-Rus . It was written primarily for the patriotic and moral education of the reader, to remind him of the glorious but forgotten pages of the history of his Motherland. The second purpose of the work is to open Ukraine to Western Europe, as well as to declare its people, identifying them with the Kyivan Rus known there.

We offer our readers a bilingual edition of Ivan Dombrowski's poem: on the left is the Latin original, and on the right is the Ukrainian translation. This design of the book makes it possible to use it as a textbook for learning Latin according to the method of Heinrich Schliemann.