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 series "Three times do not die" - "Heritage" and "Bride".
and cinema and always interesting to the reader - the adventures of our contemporaries in the past. Student Peter is preparing to play the role of Taras Bulba in an amateur play, and what kind of Cossack without a horse, swords and cradles? So, for a better entry into the image, the director gives him a pipe, like Ivan Sirko himself. The legendary Kosh Ataman. And so, once, going out to smoke on the balcony, Peter finds himself ... in the seventeenth century. The wild field, the steppe, the night, the camp of the Tatar man-hunter was set up nearby, and he is in what his mother gave birth to, and only the pipe is smoked in his hand ...