The book reflects the socio-cultural, publishing, charitable, journalistic activities of Yevhen Chykalenko and the galaxy of his "spiritual relatives" in the field of Ukrainian life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. E. Chykalenko's generation initiated the lifting of imperial bans on the educational and cultural development of the Ukrainian nation, founded the first political parties of the Dnieper region and the Society of Ukrainian Progressives, public and educational organizations, revived the Ukrainian press and publishing. E. Chykalenko's extensive correspondence, his memoir and journalistic legacy widely reflected these processes and the participation of specific individuals in them, their relationships, behavior in certain historical circumstances. This includes the role and place of famous people in the fateful events of the Ukrainian revolution and state formation of 1917-1920. For historians, literary critics, teachers, students, all who are interested in Ukrainian history of the late nineteenth - early twentieth century.
