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Where is Achilles buried? Were the people of Kyiv crusaders? Which came first: Odesa or Pryvoz? Did the Cossacks build submarines? Why is Mykolaiv impregnable, but they sing about Sevastopol? Was the Potemkin uprising Ukrainian or Jewish? How many times was the Moskva sunk? Can whalers fish? Who sold the Black Sea Fleet? How many admirals did one president have? Who launched a barge with Kherson watermelons to Kyiv? And most importantly: what is the underwater cultural heritage site No. 2064?

Anton Sanchenko has created a popular account of the history of the Black Sea from the Achaean Argo to the Russian Moscow, from the 13th century BC to 13 April 2022. With attention to our glorious ancestors, contemporaries and descendants, as well as all the neighbours who have dotted the sea like frogs in a digging hole.

The author collected materials during his trips to Ukraine and the Black Sea. He swam overboard at the deepest point of the sea, visited museums, sat in libraries, Googled digitised archives, looking for the truth, compared Russian sources with Romanian and Turkish ones. He brought to the light of God what was concealed, straightened the twisted, deflated the bloated."

This is a unique study that combines the depth of the dug sea with the ease of a relaxed style. It is not the first, but a significant contribution to the Ukrainian view of Black Sea history.