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The work (largely autobiographical) tells about the tragic fate of the family of the village blacksmith Yakov Chumak, in particular, his youngest son Andriy, about how people preserved their dignity on the verge of life and death.

«Garden of Gethsemane» — is one of the first works in world literature in which the crimes of the Stalinist regime are exposed from the position of a participant in the events.

The work is set in Kharkiv, in prisons on Sovnarkomovskaya and Kholodnaya Gora. All the names and surnames of prisoners and NKVD officers in this book are true.