About the book: 2020 / Sergei Belyakov - historian and literary critic, winner of the Big Book award and finalist of the National bestseller award, author of the books "Gumilev's son Gumilyov " and "Shadow of Mazepa. Ukrainian nation in the era of Gogol." The European revolution of 1848–1849 was called the Spring of Nations, but it was defeated in the Habsburg Empire. The victorious revolution in Russia became the true Spring of Nations. On the ruins of the empire, national states of Finns, Poles, Estonians, and Georgians appeared. The Ukrainians even created several states - a people's republic, a Ukrainian state, Soviet Ukraine... The future director Dovzhenko, together with his comrades from Petliura, stormed the rebel Arsenal plant, the Russian officer Mikhail Muravyov, whose name in Ukraine became a symbol of evil, rushed to the aid of the rebels, Ukrainian socialists and Russian aristocrats joyfully greeted the German occupiers, Russian general Skoropadsky built Ukrainian statehood, and Russian scientist Vernadsky created the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences…