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Todos Osmachok's novel The Rotunda of the Murderers depicts the deep tragedy of the fate of the Ukrainian people on the eve of the great famine of 1932-33, and provides an artistic and psychological analysis of the organisation of this artificial famine by the totalitarian and terrorist Stalinist clique that ruled at the time. The novel The Rotunda of the Assassins is a strikingly horrific chronicle of the criminal extermination of Ukrainians during the period of forced collectivisation and the inhuman cruelties of the NKVD. The protagonist of the novel, Ivan Brus, is a carrier of the national idea of the Ukrainian people, and at the same time a hero who has no place in the society of a totalitarian regime. In the canvas of the work, the artist describes the actions of Ukrainian patriotic intellectuals.