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"Saldatsky Patreon" is the first Ukrainian-language story by G. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, which became a kind of preface to the "Little Russian Tales", which marked the beginning of the development of new Ukrainian prose.

The story is considered a kind of artistic manifesto of the author. It was written in the burlesque genre for the purpose of enlightenment, where folklore sources were embodied in educational ideas. The laughter in this story has a double meaning: on the one hand, burlesque as a universal phenomenon, and on the other hand, the fashion trends of the time - laughter at ignorance and imperfection. In the form of a story-parable, the author wanted to teach critics who, not understanding the Ukrainian language, take the liberty of laughing at everything written in this language. &Latin lie, told in our way», — this is the title because one of the Latin anecdotes was used by the author when writing this story. To this day, the work retains a keen interest as a talented and realistic depiction of the fair, as an artistic testimony to the life of Ukraine in the early nineteenth century.