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«The Word about the native mother» — is a lyrical poem called to life by the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

Maxim Rylsky is a Ukrainian poet, translator, publicist, public figure, linguist, literary critic, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

At the age of seven, he wrote his first poem, and in 1910 his debut collection On White Islands was published. In the Soviet era, Rylsky wrote 35 books of poetry, the best of which are — «The Sign of the Scales» (1932), «Summer»(1936), «Ukraine», «Grape Harvest» (1940), «A Word about the Mother», «Roses and Grapes»(1957), Holosiivska Autumn (1957), Winter Records (1964); four books of lyric-epic poems, many translations from Slavic and Western European literature, scientific works on linguistics and literary studies.