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A new novel by Natalka Sniadanko focuses on the personal story of one of the most extravagant members of the imperial Habsburg family, Wilhelm, better known in Ukraine by his battlefield nickname Vasyl Vyshyvany. In the novel, his Ukrainian identity is expanded by an imaginary - probable - part of his biography. In it, he does not die in the walls of the Lukyanivska prison, as he actually did, but finds himself in Soviet Lviv, marries, raises a son and a granddaughter, and together with his wife, who came from an old Lviv family, tries to adapt to the new harsh reality. At the same time, this novel is a story of several families, countries, epochs, wars, and interwar periods. It is a reflection of Austrian in Polish, Polish in Austrian, Ukrainian in Soviet, and vice versa. It is a Galician microcosm in several generations and several epochs with bizarre combinations of linguistic, culinary, and customary realities and human destinies, which are unique to this corner of Europe, and whose retelling is often much more bizarre and fantastic than any literary fiction.