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Roman Ivanychuk (1929-2016) was a famous Ukrainian writer, winner of many literary awards, including the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. His oeuvre includes about twenty historical novels, with which the writer filled in the gaps in our history. R. Ivanychuk expanded the genre boundaries of the historical work, opening up the past to the reader, which activated the national memory.

"The Way of the Cross" (2010) is a historical novel that brings to life the history of the reign of Danylo Halytskyi, his son Lev and the famous singer Mytusa; the beginning of the twentieth century, when Father Mykola Conrad, a Ukrainian Greek Catholic saint, was the parish priest in the village of Stradchi in the Yavoriv region; the Khrushchev "thaw" and the times of the "Domoros" - a group of young philology students, one of whom was Roman Ivanychuk - are recreated. And all these times are united by the Stradchivska Pecherska Lavra...