The attention of the young writer P. Palamarchuk is occupied by topics of the history of our state. He tries to solve these topics based on the experience of today, in which the Russian past is a living and equal actor. The reader is confronted with a number of images: Zaporozhye Cossacks from the time of the struggle against the Poles for the reunification of Ukraine with Russia, representatives of the “Silver Age” intelligentsia, participants in the suppression of the Kronstadt uprising, our contemporaries with their concerns and difficulties. A special place in the book is occupied by stories - artistic studies dedicated to the activities of G.R. Derzhavin, the life of K.N. Batyushkov, the last days and opening of the grave of N.V. Gogol, the works of the Little Russian scientist M.A. Maksimovich.