The prophetic words of the great Taras that "on the renewed earth there will be no enemy, no adversary, but there will be a son, and there will be a mother, and there will be people on earth" became the unshakable conviction of Anatoly Dimarov: he took the last line of this statement as the name of one of the best of his creations. Although it talks about the most tragic pages of the life of the Ukrainian peasantry during the period of collectivization-Holodomor, although there were still many decades before our Independence. The fact is that when he started writing the novel, which was the beginning of the 1960s, the writer had already gotten rid of the delusion of the Soviet Union. However, she clung tenaciously to her narratives - a third of the work was cut by the censor. Now this true story has opened a new page in its biography: the Folio publishing house is republishing it without notes, and the recent 12-episode adaptation of the novel has gained recognition as the country's first historical family saga.