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The publication contains the last of Bohdan Lepkyi's historical novels that make up the trilogy (as defined by the author) «Mazepa». In fact, there are five stories. And although they consistently reproduce the chronology of events, each of them has an independent meaning, and therefore was published by the author separately. The protagonist of all five stories is the Ukrainian hetman Ivan Mazepa (1639-1709), whose ultimate goal was to establish the statehood of Ukraine. The work tells about the most tragic events in the life of the Ukrainian people - the «Ruin» and the last years of Ivan Mazepa's hetmanship.

Bohdan Lepkyi's contribution to the Ukrainian literary heritage is hard to overestimate. His unsurpassed works "Motrya", "Flower of Happiness", "Poltava" and others, about 30 collections of poetry, as well as journalistic articles, children's fairy tales and poems have become a real heritage of Ukrainian culture.