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Marko Vovchok is a prominent Ukrainian writer who introduced a number of new subjects into literature and reworked the old forgotten ones. The writer described Ukrainian modernity and antiquity. In her texts, she consistently spoke out against the Ukrainian form of slavery, that is, against serfdom.

The story "Maxim Hrymach" is dedicated to social prejudice and intolerance. The fate of a young girl was ruined because of her father's intolerance of «burlaks».