This edition of the little-known and unknown legacy of the prominent Ukrainian poet-lyricist and ardent fighter for Ukraine's independence - Cossack Petliur's army in 1918-1919 - Volodymyr Sosyura contains highly patriotic poems of the liberation struggle and lyrical masterpieces of the 1920s, part which was crippled by Soviet censorship. Here are works that were not published during the poet's lifetime (the poem "Mazepa" and some poems), stored in inaccessible to readers repositories or distributed in copies as the most popular examples of dissident literature.
For the first time in the book The archival and investigative file of the poet's wife Maria Gavrilovna Sosyura, repressed in November 1949, who was later rehabilitated for lack of corpus delicti.