User:Yaroslavv94/Sad Hetsymanskyi (The Garden of Gethsemane)

Sad Hetsymanskyi —  a novel with autobiographical elements of a ukrainian writer Ivan Bahrianyi, written between 1948 and 1950. According to biblical legend, Gethsemane was a garden of Jesus's dying sorrows.

Issue of the work
Novel "The Garden of Gethsemane" is an anthem of human dignity on the verge of existence and death, and at the same time an angry sentence to the totalitarian Stalinist regime, which killed millions of people without investigation and trial, and, most importantly, without guild of those blamed to be guilty. The story deals with the tragic fate of the family of the blacksmith, Yakiv Chumak, in particular, his youngest son Andrew.