Za lashtunkamy imperii [Behind the Scenes of the Empire]

The book ‘Behind the scenes of the empire’ is a non-fiction book about Russian cultural expansion, Ukrainian resistance and the struggle to preserve the memory of the author Vera Ageyeva. In her research essays for the reader of any level of knowledge, the literary critic takes us through the winding paths of the formation of national literature, its eternal encrypted rebellion in details, the war of cultures for memory, identity and domination. Everything that hurts us now in politics and literature was spoken ten years later by our classics: from Lesya Ukrainka to Maksym Rylsky, from Khvylovy to Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, from Gogol to Domontovych.