Mazeppa is a son and a hero of Ukraine. His the biggest popularity falls in the nineteenth
century. He was presented as a national hero and as Ukrainian Konrad Wallenrod in the
Ukrainian literature. Mazeppa is the a symbol of political traitor in Russian literature (besides Wojnarowski by Kondraty Ryleyev). In Polish literature Juliusz Słowacki and Bogdan Kurchan produced the figure of Mazeppa in a different way. However in British and French literatures, Mazeppa is showed as young man with strong personality who is attached to wild horse and released in vast steppes. Mazeppa fascinated and fascinates writers, painters, composers and historians as before
