For the first time in the last hundred years, the prose of Grigory Kvitka-Osnovianenko is returning appears to the readers as she really was. With its own rhythm and special

Slobojan dialect. Vengeful witches, the dead who make Easter, enchanted treasures, a cat's field - a witness against a murderer... It appears before us a bright and mystical picture of life in the Ukrainian lands from Konotop to Kharkiv The stories of Kvitka-Osnovyanenko are also European plots, transferred on national soil, sermons, literary polemics, language game. And no one knows about it don't they write in the textbooks.