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Roman Ivanychuk (1929-2016) was a famous Ukrainian writer, winner of many literary awards, including the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine. His oeuvre includes about twenty historical novels, with which the writer filled in the gaps in our history. R. Ivanychuk expanded the genre boundaries of the historical work, opening up the past to the reader, which activated the national memory. In Roman Ivanychuk's memoirs of recent years, which are included in this publication, there are often repeated descriptions of events related to situations that were important to him or people on whom he depended for many times in his life - in particular, his father, Volodymyr Hzhytskyi, Hryhoriy Nudha, Hryhoriy Tiutiunnyk, Nina Bichuia, and many others. Often, fragments of these memories and reflections became the basis for new stories, essays, prefaces, and interviews by the Master.