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This book is the life of one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. It is about the son of a nobleman of the Ukrainian noble family, in which from generation to generation there was a struggle between two souls, Ukrainian and Polish, a son of "that Tadey", a pupil of Kyiv Old Town, a bright representative of neoclassical p'iatirnyi ґron.

Utim to the "purity and simplicity" of neoclassicism, the young mitez'y ishov, having gone through a period of being captivated by the "dark vezhami" symbolism, grykhovnymi spokusy, "poison charming". The art of equivocation was established after the experience of opium visions, drug paradises, and the naturalisation of evil.

Searching for new values in the world abandoned by God, the poet equally values Homer and Baudelaire, antiquity and decadence. A separate storyline of the book is the history of Maxim Rilskyi's relationship with the Radian regime, an analysis of his texts with a subversive bottom, texts-ciphers, which inform us about the tragic collisions of the time of the great terror. He remained faithful to his muse, the religion of beauty and harmony.

Vira Ageyeva is a professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Laureate of the Shevchenko Prize.

Vira Ageyeva is a professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Author of the books "Behind the lashtunks of empire", "Marsians on Khreshchatyk", "Women's space: feminist discourse of Ukrainian modernism", "Poetics of paradox: The Intellectual Prose of Viktor Petrova-Domontovich", "Apologia Moderna: A Sketch of the Twentieth Century", "Roads and Seredochrestya", "Viserunok na kameni. Mikola Bazhan: The Life of a (non)Radian Poet" and others.