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The plot of the comedy «Martin Borulia» is based on facts from the life of the Tobilevich family: the playwright's father, who had long served as a manager of landowner's estates, decided to achieve recognition of his family as nobility. It took a lot of time, but in vain - the nobility was not proved, since the surname in the old documents was Tubilevych, and in the new ones it was Tobilevych. Karpenko-Kary used this fact to ridicule the attempts of an ordinary person to become a nobleman, falsely thinking that this would somehow elevate him above others.