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The novel "Misto" by Valer'yan Pidmogilny is a story of an ambitious young man who moves from the village to Kiev and makes a new life there. He is often compared to the hero of "Any Friend". Maupassant and the self-reliant and not overexcited in means pidkoryvachacha sushpilnyh tops of Balzac's plots. However, for Pidmogilny is not only the history of car'ery. He describes the life of Stepan Radchenok in the historical and cultural context of that time Ukraine.

Marginal and a stranger Radchenko during the novel is purposefully rectified vikstaltovuetovu himself, get education, get acquainted with intellectual and creative elite. He finds the world before him difficult.

Otherwise, the novel "Misto", written in 1927, showed a very important achievement of the national revolution: the return of urban space under Ukrainian cultural jurisdiction. The era of lowly self-oblivion within the framework of domestic rusticism was left behind, and Kyiv was once again becoming the centre of a powerful art renaissance.