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A gallery of memoir portraits of significant people of the time from Yevhen Hutsal, Ivan Marchuk, Vasyl Ivasyuk to Ivan Yushchuk. Sofia Maidanska and other famous figures constitutes a kind of literary and political map of Dmytro Pavlychko's spiritual world.

Here are interviews, diary entries by the author made in Warsaw in 2000 and in Bratislava in 2002, political speeches and statements, in particular on Ukrainian-Polish relations, the patriotic duty to defend the Ukrainian language as the foundation of the nation, Ukraine's departure from Kremlin influence and the proper honouring of the builders of Ukrainian statehood and the UPA soldiers; research on the Polish-speaking Ivan Franko and Juliusz Slovak as harbingers of Ukrainian independence; an unpublished interview with Solomiya Pavlychko. At the same time, this book is a dramatic image of Ukraine in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.