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Todos (Teodosiy) Stepanovych Osmachka was a Ukrainian writer and poet. He was a representative of symbolism, expressionism and neo-romanticism. He criticised communist ideology and the intelligentsia that collaborated with the communist authorities. He was persecuted by the Russian repressive psychiatry.
The main works of the writer are presented in this collection - "The Senior Boyar", "The Rotunda of the Assassins" and numerous poems.
«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, it is a story by Osmachyn. If a word can carry the smell of Ukraine, then this book smells like all the fragrance of Ukraine. If a word can build a homeland, a state, then it is built, visibly and vividly," Yuri Shevelev, a professor at Harvard and Columbia Universities, assessed Osmachka's work.