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Hnat Khotkevych (pseudonym - Hnat Halayda; 1877-1938) was a Ukrainian writer, historian, bandura player, composer, art historian, ethnographer, teacher, theatre and social and political activist. A victim of Stalin's terror. In his novel Dovbush, he described the life of the eighteenth-century Hutsuls using the example of the legendary Oleksa Dovbush, a rebel who changed the fate of people in the Carpathians. The picturesque landscapes, fast mountain rivers, and green animals fostered the same wild and unrestrained temperament of the locals, giving rise to a number of phenomenal phenomena. And the most striking of them was the opryshkivstvo. The glorious history of the fighters against social and national oppression lasted in the Carpathians for almost half a millennium.