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Todos (Teodosii) Stepanovych Osmachka was a Ukrainian writer and poet. A representative of symbolism, expressionism and neo-romanticism.

He criticised the communist ideology and the intelligentsia that collaborated with the communist authorities. He was persecuted by Russian repressive psychiatry.

"With the exception, perhaps, of Shevchenko's poems and Gogol's Ukrainian stories, our literature has never known such a Ukrainian book as The Elder Boyar. If you can pour Ukraine into a word, this is a story by Osmachyn. If a word can carry the smell of Ukraine, then this book smells like the whole fragrance of Ukraine. If you can build a homeland-state in a word, then it is built, visibly and vividly," said Yuri Shevelev, a professor at Harvard and Columbia Universities, in his assessment of Osmachka's work.

Performer: Oleksandr Koval
Duration: 4 hours 41 minutes 34 seconds