Oleg Govda (born 1964) graduated from Lviv Polytechnic Institute, chemist. Lives in the city of South Odessa region. Published since 1987, some of his works have been translated into other languages. He is the author of adventure and fiction stories, short stories and more than a dozen novels, one of which - "Perun's Horse" - won the All-Ukrainian competition "Coronation of the Word" (2001). Oleg Govda is also a laureate of the Gogol Fantasy 2010 competition. He believes that the main thing in literature is interesting adventures of heroes, and mysticism, fantasy or science fiction - all these are just spices for the main course.
, "Perun's Horse", as well as the cycle "Three Times Not to Die" - "Heritage" and "Bride". in particular - on Halych. But this is not a retelling of famous events: the author is not limited to historical figures, but brings to the stage fantastic characters - werewolves, housewives, witches, ancient gods. Rhinitis and evil spirits have long lived next to people and help or harm them. Well, the gods, as it should be, compete for possession of the world and human souls.
And the plot of the novel is originally intertwined with Ivan Franko's novel "Zahar Berkut", because one of the characters is none other than Zakhar. A young man who went to the hermitage for science, but met the goddess Morena on the way and & hellip; became her student.