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History is not written with a pen; what can a historian write about the lives of people who lived a hundred or a thousand years ago? He can list for a long time the events described by someone; the peoples and their rulers who fought for their power; the lands that some inhabited, others despoiled; the cities that some built and others burned; but all this is more like historical chronology and statistics. History is made up of the lives of thousands and millions of people.

The book describes historical events on the example of the human destinies of the author's countrymen, residents of the village of Popivka, in the Myrhorod region.