Volodymyr Malik (real name - Sychenko, 1921-1998) - a famous Ukrainian writer who gained fame as the author of historical and adventure novels, whose works are placed next to the works of Alexandre Dumas and Henrik Senkevich. including insufficiently studied events of Ukraine's past, which played a special role in the historical destiny of the people.
G. Skovoroda, dedicated to the tragic events of 1240, which interrupted the political and cultural development of Ukraine for centuries. The author, having studied historical sources in detail, using factual material of chronicles, not only shows the capture of Poros by Batu, the ninety-six-day siege of Kiev and its fall, the bloody road to the "last sea" through Galicia and Volhynia and the destruction of southern Russia, but also reveals the reasons. which led to this disaster, the roots of the indestructibility of the Ukrainian nation, which was revived even on the ruins of civilization.
