Much of what you will read about in this book cannot be found in history books. Although no one hides or hides chronicle sources and eyewitness accounts in secret archives, they are ashamed, they are hushed up, they are not mentioned. As if what is written about in the documents and what has entered the genetic memory of the people did not happen in reality. But it was... During the Cossack uprising in Little Russia in the mid-seventeenth century, which would later be called national liberation, bloody events took place that most of the people were unaware of. From the horror, impossibility, and senselessness of what is happening, disbelief arises: was this really done by people whose names have been glorified for hundreds of years? But it was... The book is not only about thousands of innocent people killed, but it is also about the heights of the spirit that have come down to us through the centuries, about loyalty and betrayal, about honor and meanness, about friendship sealed by blood. And about love...