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Based on Ukrainian folklore, the poetic fairy tale by Bila Tserkva writer Kostiantyn Klymchuk contains both characteristic fairy tale features and characters, such as the devil or the Cossack character, and real facts of Ukraine's turbulent past several decades after the death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, which, due to fratricidal strife and bloody struggle between pro-Polish, pro-Moscow and independence movements among the Cossack officers of the time, remained in the history, thought and artistic works of Ukraine as the period of Ruin.

If the Cossack Stepan, his fellow Cossack Okhrim, or the bride Kalyna are literary characters invented by the author, Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky is a very real historical figure. For all the contradictions of his domestic and foreign policy, he is a glorious hetman of Ukraine who defended our land from the invasive Moscow conquest for a long time.