Oksana Zabuzhko, poet and prose writer, is one of the most popular modern Ukrainian authors. Her fame has long gone beyond the borders of Ukraine. The novel “The Museum of Abandoned Secrets” is a Ukrainian epic spanning an entire century. A country split between Poland and the Soviet Union, which survived the famine, Stalinist repressions, and war, finally gained independence. But has she truly become free? A different look at general history, capable of shocking, but necessary to understand modern Ukraine.