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The novel The Luboratskys is the main work of the Ukrainian writer Anatoliy Svydnytsky.

The work is a chronicle (largely autobiographical) of the decline of the Luboratsky priestly family in three generations, against a realistically recreated background of the domination of Polish lords in Podillia, the oppression of the tsarist regime and official Orthodoxy hostile to Ukraine. The broad thematic scope of the work gave Ivan Franko the reason to call it "the first realistic novel set in everyday life."

Both in content and artistic form, the novel "The Luboratskys" is a mediating link between the prose of Hryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Marko Vovchok and others, on the one hand, and the later realistic epic prose of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky and Panas Myrnyi, on the other. However, the novel had no influence on Svydnytskyi's contemporary literature, as it was published only 15 years after the author's death. Franko in Zorya (1886).