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Volodymyr Viatrovych is a professional historian who studies the Ukrainian liberation movement of the twentieth century, as well as a popularist journalist. His works "History with a "Secret" stamp" and "Behind the Scenes of Volyn-43" have already become bestsellers.

Augmented with 12 new essays, the reissue of Vyatrovych's "(Un)historical moments" is not a popular science book in the traditional sense of the word. But he would not have been able to write it if he had not been a professional historian who was deeply versed in the subject. This collection deals with events whose veracity cannot be proved by any document, because the turbulent twentieth century simply did not leave them for us. But a subtle sense of the spirit of the time suggests to the author that these events could have happened. And who knows if they did not...

Yes, Volodymyr Viatrovych is aware that history does not know the word "if only". And yet he does not lack the courage to step over this axiom. As well as the courage to try his hand at texts that are more akin to literature than journalism.

The (un)historical moments that form the basis of this book are taken from the previous century of Ukrainian history: Leontovych's creative plans that were not destined to come true; Kurbas's final role, played not on stage at all; a train carrying Kyiv students to the Kruty station; the last UPA fighters in the last hideout; a Soviet concentration camp where poets die but poems are born. The author brings his stories up to the present - the 2014 Maidan and the Russian-Ukrainian war. These are 50 essays-moments - small fragments of a mosaic that together create a large canvas of history, with its bright and gloomy colours, tones and halftones.