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Poet and Citizen Vasyl Stus (1938-1985) could not attend the presentation of any of his books. Because he was not published in Ukraine - his collections of poems were handed out in self-published form, and published only abroad. Participation in the movement of those who disagreed with the Russification and anti-Ukrainian policies, and his active human rights position twice brought Stus to the dock under the article "Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda."

This book contains documents from a six-volume criminal case that is stored on the shelves of the former KGB archive of the Ukrainian SSR in Kyiv (now the Sectoral State Archive of the SSU). How and why was the poet arrested? Who tried to save Vasyl Stus during the trial, and who did everything to ensure that he disappeared forever behind the bars of the political zone in the Urals? We have added several publications to the materials from 1980, from which readers will learn about little-known facts about the life, imprisonment, and death of one of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century, not only in Ukraine but also in Europe.

The book contains archival documents from the case of Vasyl Stus (protocols of searches, interrogations, letters, articles, etc.), photographs, articles by Vakhtang Kipiani, as well as well-known dissidents Vasyl Ovsiyenko and Leonid Borodin. The book also includes Stus's last lifetime notes - "From the Camp Notebook" - secretly transferred from the camp to freedom. Foreword by Vakhtang Kipiani.