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"Two Muscovites" is the first story by the Ukrainian classic Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky, first published in the Lviv magazine "Pravda" in 1868 under the pseudonym Ivan Nechuy. Written in the city of Poltava. Over half a century of creative activity, I. Nechuy-Levytsky wrote more than fifty highly artistic novels, novels, stories, plays, fairy tales, essays, humor, and literary-critical articles. A distinctive feature of Nechuy-Levytsky's style is a subtle combination of realistic concreteness of descriptions, great attention to the details of portraits and personal characteristics, everyday life, working conditions, peculiarities of language and behavior of characters with picturesque imagery, emotionality, and a tendency to bright epithets. All this together puts the works of the Ukrainian prose writer on a par with the works of the best Western European and Russian writers of that time and takes Ukrainian literature beyond the limits of domesticism and ethnography of the past, pre-Shevchenko era. “Ukrainian life,” wrote Nechuy-Levytsky, “is an unopened mine that lies somewhere underground, although such great talents as Shevchenko have already taken up its work; it is endless material that is just waiting for workers, entire schools of workers in the literary field” (from open sources).