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Olena Pchilka's stories are wonderful sketches of the life of Ukrainian wealthy families, the capital's and provincial elite, and the way of life established in estates and manors at the end of the nineteenth century.

Visits, balls, concerts, and club meetings were often intended to organise a successful marriage for girls, but at the same time they supported the national tradition, the spread of Ukrainian ideas, and the emergence of women's university education. For example, we are talking about the first Ukrainian women who sat down at the student's bench next to their peers and studied medicine in Switzerland."

In urban stories, Olena Pchilka breaks down stereotypes with incredible brilliance, sometimes reduces pathos, sometimes demonstrates the duality of standards, and also searches for the deep psychological motivations of the characters' actions.