Yuriy Mushketyk (1929-2019) is a master of modern Ukrainian prose. His work reflects the historical development of the state and the role of the individual in it, the author is extremely sensitive to the rhythms of modern life.
In the "Tale of bygone years" - "I'm coming for you" Yuri Mushketyk recreated the life of nomadic tribes, the atmosphere of the main city of Kievan Rus - Kiev. In the center of the story - a young Russian Bus, who was taken prisoner by the Polovtsian tribe and after various adventures and trials returns to his family and people - to the Russians, glades, ie - the Slavs.
Articles, stories, tales , novels, short stories on historical themes Yu. Mushketyk builds on real events and figures, but they can be specified in genre, as a short story-version, short story-hypothesis, short story-dispute, novel-research… The tragedy of his works imbued with the bitter truth of the twentieth century and centuries of the past ("Court", "Sweet Life of Onyx", "Cossacks", "Ukrainians to this day, now, fresh and forever"), a kind of ozone, cathartic, it purifies the soul, as if relieving it of the burden of innocent guilt, in it The pure voice of truth is heard.
The Folio publishing house has published books by Yu. Chase "," Hetman, son of the hetman "," Bridgehead ". Cruel mercy.
