Pidmohylny is a representative of Executed Renaissance who was killed by Stalin's totalitarian regime at the age of 33. All Ukrainian authors before Pidmohylny focused on the Ukrainian village and problem of villagers, but he was first who wrote a novel about urbanistic issues. In this book he wrote about Kyiv and its inhabitants, urban life those times, movement, dynamics, landscapes. Of course, many things have changed, Kyiv is depicted from 100 of years ago, but some things are still the same. He described the the Ukrainian peasant youth which was moving to the capital to conquer it. I think it still the same today.