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The works included in the book are a remarkable phenomenon in world Ukrainian studies. For a long time, the work of Beauplan, a French engineer of the seventeenth century, was the only authoritative source of knowledge of the heroic history of the Zaporizhzhia Cossacks, the customs of Ukrainians, and the flora and fauna of the region. The offered works by P. Mérimée are a unique testimony to the Ukrainian studies interests of the classic of French literature. In them, the writer acts as a bona fide scientist, psychologist, and historian.