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«Mikola Dzherya» — a social and everyday novel by I. Nechuya-Levitsky. Nechuya-Levitsky, dedicated to Mykola Lysenko, in which the author describes the important life of villagers-creepers in tsarist Russia, their chaotic struggle against oppression, successfully combined harmonious descriptions of nature and colourful folk characters with bright characters. The story belongs to the classic works of Ukrainian literature of the ХІХ century. Panchina is portrayed as the most dangerous phenomenon of life and the force that crippled people. The writer describes not only the powerlessness and suffering of the protected villagers, but also the growth of hatred in them towards the pans, the protest and struggle of some criminals against oppression.