Rare in syllable memoirs of a man who described his captivity in Turkey, as if it were a journey to an unknown country. The presentation is worthy of the best prose writers of their time. Pleasant reading and new discoveries, all this on every page of this short work. In addition, the book is supplemented with biographical information about the author, whose family originates from Sloboda Ukraine, from the clerk of the Izyumsky Sloboda Cossack Regiment Yuri Rosalion.