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The book, on the basis of extensive archival material and printed sources, provides a historical and biographical sketch of Severin Nalyvaiko, one of the best leaders of the peasant-Cossack uprising in Ukraine in 1594-1596 against Polish-gentry rule.

The book covers the following: the uprising of peasants and Cossacks led by S. Nalyvaiko in Bratslav region, the campaign to Moldova and Belarus, the battle in the Gostryi Kamen tract, and the Battle of Solonitsky. The description of these events widely shows the heroic activities of S. Nalyvaiko as an organiser and leader of the masses. The final chapter of the book describes the image of S. Nalyvaiko in fiction and folk art.