comrades Novels

Olena Pchilka's stories are magical pictures from the life of wealthy Ukrainian families, representatives of the metropolitan and provincial elite, who live a settled life in estates and manors at the end of the 19th century.

Visits, balls, concerts, and club gatherings were often aimed at organizing successful marriages for young girls, but at the same time they contributed to the maintenance of national tradition, the spread of Ukrainian ideas, and the development of women's university education. For example, the first Ukrainian women who sat down at the desk next to their peers and received a medical education in Switzerland.

In urban plots, Olena Pchilka breaks stereotypes with unparalleled talent, sometimes pathos is considered, sometimes duality of standards is shown, and the deep psychological motivation of the characters' actions is also studied.