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The book presents 17 biographies of hetmans - faithful and selfless preachers and defenders of the idea of the Cossack state. They devoted all their talents to bringing this idea to life, aiming to win statehood for the Ukrainian people. These hetmans had to act in the most difficult, challenging, and sometimes tragic historical conditions for Ukraine.

Dmytro Baida Vyshnevetskyi, Petro Sahaidachnyi, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi, Ivan Mazepa are hetmans whose names are used to name epochs. Separate essays in the book are dedicated to Ivan Vyhovskyi, Petro Doroshenko, Pylyp Orlyk, Kyrylo Razumovsky, Pavlo Skoropadskyi - prominent statesmen, politicians, military leaders, and talented diplomats.

The book presents a biography of Ukrainian statesmen of the XVII - XVIII centuries and the beginning of the XX century.