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Who are we — Ukraine or Malorosia? Europe or Russia? Is Ukrainian religion — the same as the Byzantine Orthodoxy? Is it true that Ukrainians are a rural nation&mdash? What mystery was kept by the «taemni partnerships» of the nobles of Malorossiya in the XIX century? Why is the legend about the Grail encrypted in «Lisovy song»? What is democracy and what is hamocracy? What was the basis of the modern Ukrainian project, and have we succeeded in realising it?

One of the most famous books by Oksana Zabuzhko, first published in 2007 and honoured with many prestigious awards, offers readers a fascinating intellectual journey across ages, cultures and faiths in search of the Ukraine we have lost. The key to it is the myth of Lesia Ukrainka — the most widely read and most dramatically underestimated writer in the pantheon of our national classics.

It is not only a fundamental historical and cultural work and vishukana philological exegetics. It is also a book about our present day — about how cruelly we are paying for the loss and forgetting of bagatovikov's face culture.