The Zaporozhye Sich was a unique phenomenon; it wrote many bright pages in the history of Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. It is no coincidence that she attracted the attention of many researchers and artists; her image was widely used in fiction, cinema, and is also addressed for political purposes. But widespread ideas about the Sich consisted of oral traditions and legends, heavily embellished by folk imagination, and were supplemented by various kinds of distortions. The new work of the famous writer Valery Shambarov for the first time presents the complete and objective history of the Dnieper Cossack brotherhood, separates truth from speculation and allows you to impartially answer the question: what was it really like, the Zaporozhye Sich?