Mykola Khvylovy (1893-1933) – writing in the avant-garde Kharkiv of the 1920s, has not been translated into Polish until now (apart from one short story). He occupies a key place in Ukrainian literature of the first half of the 20th century, and as scholars of his work believe, his ten-year period of literary activity is comparable to an entire epoch in literature. He is the author of the most important texts of Ukrainian literature of the 1920s, compared to Mykola Gogol (by Serhiy Yefremov), Fiodor Dostoevsky (by Maksym Rylsky), and Friedrich Nietzsche (the concept of the "strong man" in Khvylovy's pamphlets). He is also the main ideologist, judge, and outstanding co-creator of Ukrainian literature of the 1920s and 1930s, which is referred to by Yuriy Lavrinenko as the literature of the "Executed Renaissance" (many talented writers were shot, imprisoned, or exiled on Stalin's orders). During the period of revolution and civil war in Eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian creative intelligentsia split into supporters and opponents of the new regime. Most of those who did not emigrate faced death during the Stalinist purges.