Ivan Franko (1856-1916) is an undisputed classic of Ukrainian literature. He was a gifted, encyclopedically educated, and extremely hard-working man. He was a poet, prose writer, playwright, critic and historian, translator, and publisher. The plots for his works Franco drew from the life and struggle of the native people, from the original sources of human culture, and, oddly enough, they have not lost their relevance.
The novel "Zahar Berkut" topic. Reproducing the historical past, the struggle of the people of Tukhlya against the Mongol-Tatars, the writer intertwines fiction and folk art, based on the well-known legend in Galicia and Transcarpathia about how the Tukhol community flooded the Mongol army in the spring of 1241. And whatever it was, but today this story is perceived as surprisingly modern when it comes to the liberation of our homeland from invaders.