Roman Ivanychuk (1929-2016) - a famous Ukrainian writer, winner of many literary prizes, including the National Prize of Ukraine. T. Shevchenko and others. In his creative work are about twenty historical novels, which the writer fills the white spots in our history. And it is not limited to depicting certain events of the past, but identifies many issues that concern our contemporaries. A. Head. Having painted in this work in vivid detail a picture of urban life of the late sixteenth - early seventeenth centuries, the author resurrects the reader medieval Lviv, Lviv period of the first fraternal schools, where the ideas of the liberation war of the future Khmelnytsky region.