YUras′ CHmel′nychenko. Rozmyr. Knyha 2

TSey roman ye druhoyu knyhoyu trylohiyi, prysvyachenoyi synam het′mana Ukrayiny Bohdana CHmel′nyts′koho.  Skladne politychne stanovysche, v yakomu opynylasya Ukraina pislya smerti Bohdana CHmel′nyts′koho, potrebuvalo yaknaytisnishoyi konsolidatsiyi kozatstva i vs′oho suspil′stva navkolo instytutiv het′mans′koyi vlady. Prote tohochasna panivna verstva kozats′ka starshyna v svoyiy perevazhniy bil′shosti ne zmohla podolaty syndrom plebeystva, ne zumila pidnyatysya nad vuz′kostanovymy interesamy. Pidburyuvana ahresyvnymy susidamy, starshyna podilylysya na vorozhi uhrupuvannya, yaki rozpochaly mizh soboyu tryvalu borot′bu; ne ostannyu rol′ zihrav tut i YUriy CHmel′nyts′kyy.  Dvadtsyat′ rokiv tochylasya tsya borot′ba, azh poky ukrayins′ka zemlya ne stala ruyinoyu i bula podilena mizh Moskvoyu, Pol′scheyu ta Turechchynoyu. A menshyy Bohdaniv syn skinchyv sviy vik daleko vid ridnoho krayu, vsima zabutyy....  Roman Oleksiya Pachuchoho rozpovidaye pro mynuvshynu, ale vin aktual′nyy i dlya s′ohodennya, adzhe ukrayins′kyy narod znovu vymushenyy vidstoyuvaty svoyu terytoriyu y nezalezhnist′.