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Archives, documents, leaves, arguments, collected in this book, give an opportunity to see the biography and creativity of Oleksandr Dovzhenk in a new light.

Petlurivets or Stalinist, revolutionary romantic or rational pragmatist, Radian spy in Germany or Ukrainian diplomat who defends the interests of Ukraine? It is not easy to find unambiguous answers to all these questions. In Dovzhenkov's listuvanni with Varvara Krilova, Olena Chernova, Yulia Solntseva, Valentina Tkachenko, the complex collisions of intimate relationships, the history of love and maturity, faith and loyalty grow. Hitherto unpublished memoirs of contemporaries allow us to see into the creative laboratory of the maitz, to understand the outflows of his directorial ideas, autobiographical background of the plots of "Arsenal", "Zemlya", war prose, and prostrate the peculiarities of Oleksandr Dovzhenk's myth in Ukrainian culture.

In the series "Persona" non-budenni postates of national and world context are presented as they would appear through the prism of their not yet written full-length biographies. This is a chance to get closer to the distance, when the textbook gloss and the fog of incomprehension lose their power. For some, it is also a chance to discover new names and change the perception of the epoch.