The personality of Nestor Makhno is on a par with such folk heroes as Spartak, Robin Hood, Stepan Razin, Jan Hus... The rulers called them bandits, and ordinary people composed songs and legends about them. The novel “Nestor Makhno” became a global artistic study of the majestic and bloody era of the insurgent movement, to which Batko Makhno dedicated his life, an attempt to reveal the image of the people’s leader, a brave and resourceful commander, an original anarchist philosopher in all his greatness and contradictions. This book, unique in its depth of research, is the result of Viktor Akhinko’s many years of work on documents and archival materials, eyewitness accounts and participants in bloody events that had a significant impact on the course of history.