The novel was written at the beginning of the long creative path of Ozheshko, he deserves to be known by the Russian reader. The novel is not without reason called "Lords of Pompalinsky" .. Almost all the characters, appearing on its pages ,. These are the offspring, numerous branches of the Pompalinski family tree - from graphs, The “tops” , with "genuine" tribal aristocracy, to the small nobles , Disrupted , Down to the bottom of life , forced to sell their children to live or send them to factories. E. Ozheshko gives in this novel as if a vertical cut of a certain part of the Polish noble society of the late 60s - early 70s, after the peasant reform and the uprising of 1863 - events that put a very sharp seal on it.