About the book: year / "The famous guests feasted noisily at the luxurious table of Vasily Leontievich Kochubey. On the day of the angel of his dear wife, Lyubov, he treated Hetman Mazepa, all the military nobility and the dear Prince Obidovsky: golden honey and expensive Hungarian wine boiled in heavy goblets, the virgins and wives modestly whispered to each other; and the brave, warlike pupils of the Dnieper remembered their victories, wished for new ones and, shaking hands with each other, drank to glory, friendship and hospitable Love! Everyone’s faces were enlivened by a smile; their souls were like a cloudless sky - and the bright sun cheerfully looked through the windows of the clean little room at the banquet of the rich hospitable man…»