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This book by Dmytro Pavlychko is full of deep sadness and sad confessions, such as: «Ukrainian Cossacks in the service of Catherine II were traitors to their homeland». Even today, in the days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the poet sees a deadly threat to Ukraine in the mistletoe of Muscovy and the infection of Little Russia. Against this mistletoe and this spiritual mutilation, the poet pits such powerful historical figures as Ivan Bohun, Ivan Mazepa, Tadeusz Kostiushko, Symon Petliura, Marko Bezruchko, Yuriy Kondratiuk, and Father Hryhoriy Khomyshyn with his incendiary bookTwo Kingdoms" and, finally, the author's father Vasyl Pavlychko, to whom a separate poem "Father" is dedicated in the new collection.