Panas Myrnyi (real name - Opanas Yakovlevich Rudchenko, 1848-1920) entered the history of Ukrainian literature as a novelist-innovator, master of psychological prose. His novel "Do the oxen roar when the manger is full?" became the first peasant epic, covering events from Catherine's time to the abolition of serfdom in 1861. The main character Chipka Varenyk is a peasant-rebel, a tireless seeker of truth, who eventually climbed the crooked path of struggle and became a "lost force". If in the literature of Romanticism of Ukraine Robin Hoods like Garkushi and Ustym Karmelyuk were fondly brought to the pedestal, Chipka is an alternative to Robin Hoods. The novel denied the possibility of bloody ways of establishing the truth and can be put on a par with such works as "Crime and Punishment" and "Devils" by F. Dostoevsky. The novel "Prostitute" depicts the tragic fate of a poor peasant girl Christ. The need and persecution of the local rich drove Christ from his native village to earn money in the city. But even there she does not find happiness - again violence, meanness, lies, which cause her suffering and push into the abyss & hellip;
