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Hnat Khotkevych (literary pseudonym Hnat Halayda; 1877-1938) was a Ukrainian writer, bandura player, theatre and social and political activist. In his novel Dovbush, he described the life of the eighteenth-century Hutsuls, and did so on the example of the legendary Oleksa Dovbush, an opryshok who changed the fate of people in the Carpathians. The picturesque landscapes, fast mountain rivers, and green beasts nurtured 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 opryshkivshchyna. The glorious history of the Hutsul fighters against social and national oppression lasted almost half a millennium.