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Does the modern Ukrainian reader need to be told once again who Batko Makhno was? Yes, it is necessary. Because, as the author of The Steppe Pirate, the Warsaw-based Ukrainianist and cultural critic Stanisław Lubiński, argues, even in Nestor Ivanovych's small homeland, the answer to this question is not obvious to everyone. However, it will probably never become obvious to everyone. Who was he really? An ideological anarchist or a robber from a dusty steppe road? One of the brightest leaders of our social revolution or one of the main gravediggers of our national revolution? A descendant of the ancient Cossack liberty or a forerunner of today's bloody chaos in eastern Ukraine? One thing is certain: Nestor Makhno lived a life worthy of all the books that have been and will be written about him.