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Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Petrivna Kosach) was a Ukrainian writer, translator, and cultural activist. She wrote in the genres of poetry, lyrics, epic, drama, prose, and journalism. She also worked in the field of folklore (220 folk melodies were recorded with her voice).

The cycle "From the Travel Book" includes six poems written by the poetess when she went to Egypt for treatment. In Batumi, she boarded a small Italian steamer that sailed for almost a week across the Black Sea along the Anatolian coast to Istanbul. It was this voyage that inspired Lesja Ukrainka to create the cycle. It is no accident that the author noted: «15–21. I 1911. Black Sea near Anatolia.