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Pavlo Zahrebelnyi (1924-2009) was a Ukrainian writer, screenwriter, Hero of Ukraine, Shevchenko Prize laureate. He worked in the Soviet military mission in Germany, as deputy editor-in-chief of the Vitchyzna magazine, and editor-in-chief of the Literary Newspaper. He held the position of first secretary of the board of the Writers' Union of Ukraine, from which he was removed due to denunciation. He was the chairman of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize Committee. He is buried at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv.

In the historical novel Roksolana, the author tells the story of Nastia Lisovska, the wife of the Turkish Sultan Suleiman I. Once in the harem, the girl from Rohatyn, Prykarpattia, soon became the favourite wife of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire. The writer managed to successfully penetrate the complex inner world of the heroine. While writing the novel, he personally visited Turkey and Rohatyn, places connected with her life.