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"In addition to Chernecha Mountain in Kaniv, there is another holy place on Earth where the spirit of our Kobzar lives - the city of Fort Shevchenko in Kazakhstan. Here, from 1850 to 1857, by order of the tsar, he served a severe sentence as a recruiter for his freedom-loving poems. The remains of the Novopetrovsk fortress, where Taras served, have been preserved on Mount Kurhantash, and down in the valley, the only oasis of the Mangyshlak desert is the Taras Shevchenko Park, in the centre of which is a museum dedicated to his stay in these parts." (Oleksandr Karpenko)

"Willow in the Desert" is a collection of travel essays about holy places - Ukrainian Jerusalems - that played a fateful role in the fate of luminaries and prominent figures of culture and science of our nation, as well as about the largest centres of spirituality created by Ukrainian communities abroad. We will discover the greatness and richness of the Ukrainian world, which stretches from continent to continent, from ocean to ocean.

Readers will learn interesting facts from the lives of great Ukrainian artists in foreign lands, and will learn about the nobility and heroism of the heroes of the stories.