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The historical drama-tetralogy Bohdan Khmelnytsky, which we offer to the reader, was completed in 1929. Its only publication was in 1929, in the sixth volume of Hnat Khotkevych's eight-volume set, published by the Kharkiv Cooperative Publishing House Rukh in 2000 copies. Probably, it was with this drama that the artist's tragedy began. In the last part of the tetralogy Pereyaslav, Khotkevych, contrary to the official concept, condemned the signing of the Pereyaslav Agreement, calling this act the enslavement of Ukraine by Russia.

Hnat Khotkevych was an artist of an unprecedented scale in Ukrainian culture. He was an extraordinary genius, gifted with many talents - a poet, prose writer, translator, teacher, ethnographer, composer, theatre performer, actor and director, bandura player, art critic, historian, artist, engineer... His work and organisational activities covered the whole of Ukraine - from Slobozhanshchyna to the Carpathians. He is an artist of the Ukrainian Executed Renaissance.