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In the history of Ukrainian realistic literature, the works of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky occupy a prominent place. It is known that the development of fiction and, in particular, the great epic genres of the story and novel is an important stage in the formation of the national art of the word. Having entered the Ukrainian literary field, Nechuy-Levytsky brilliantly developed the content and form of a short story and gave the first examples of the realistic novel genre from modern life.

Nechuy-Levytsky's novel Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky was published in 1898 in Lviv. It tells the story of the Vyhovsky family and the family of a simple Cossack, Demko Liutai. It is through the biography of these two families that the writer seeks to show the situation in Ukraine after the Pereyaslav Agreement and the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the attitude of the common people to the intentions of their leaders.