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Markiyan Shashkevych was a writer, public and cultural figure, a harbinger of the national revival in the Western Ukrainian lands. Fascinated, like all romantics, by the heroics of princely times and the Cossack era, Shashkevych made the first attempts to form historical thinking. In his philosophical and theological prose poems "Psalms to Ruslan", poems, articles and essays, Shashkevych advocated the cult of reason, combined with morality and beauty, reason that would not dominate the free sensuality of man. I. Franko considered Shashkevych the founder of a "truly new, truly folk school of literature", and his work was evidence of progressive trends in the culture of Galicia and Ukraine.