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Oles Dosvitny (real name Oleksandr Skrypal-Mishchenko) is a little-known and extraordinary Ukrainian writer of the early 20th century. During the First World War, he was arrested for spreading revolutionary ideas, but managed to escape through Kyrgyzstan and China to America, and later returned to Soviet Ukraine. The experience of travel and unfamiliar lands laid the foundation for many of his texts, and new themes of exoticism and eastern peoples were also praised by fellow writers, such as Mykola Khvylovy. Dosvitnyi's prose shows the search for one's own role in the dreamed-of revolution and ambiguous feelings after it. Even small notes of doubt did not go unnoticed by the Soviet authorities, so the writer added to the lists of victims of Stalin's terror. The book includes the short stories "Gülle" and "Alay", as well as the short stories "Missionaries", "On the Ponds" and "The Beggar".