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The book «From the Country of Cossacks to the Country of Peasants. Ukraine in the West's Eyes in the Sixteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" provides a panoramic view of the perception of Ukraine's image in publications and periodicals in Western Europe since the mid-sixteenth century, when the Cossacks and the Cossack army were discussed at the highest levels of power in most European states. The author offers readers an interesting and documentary-rich description of how the Ukrainian narrative penetrated various spheres of life in Western Europe: from early geographical maps through the powerful image of the Cossacks to the image of peasant and poetic Ukraine. Particularly noteworthy are the detailed analysis of the image of the Cossacks in the seventeenth century, the analysis of travel descriptions of the life of Ukrainians in 1760-1860, as well as the description of the early reception of Shevchenko and Gogol, the spread of the Mazepa legends in the literature and art of European Romanticism.

The publication contains 47 maps and illustrations. The book deepens knowledge of the history of Ukraine and is intended for a wide readership.