A native resident of the village of Chaikivka in Zhytomyr region, Petro Kozliuk, has collected an unofficial chronicle of his region. What started out as a personal project after the death of his son turned into a life's work. Petro restores the historical memory of people, society, resistance and culture.

"I started collecting material after my son's death... So that the memory would remain," says Petro. These searches became his way of honouring his family and a keen, in which, as he found out, since the XVIII century there were conscious Ukrainians – teachers, participants in national movements, fighters for the Ukrainian language.

A special place in his tale is occupied by the story of the "Chaikivka hundred", in which three of his grandfathers fought, for which one was shot and two were enslaved.

From the Sokolovskyi uprising to the archives of the Kyiv Cossack regiment, the history of Chaikivka appears as a mosaic, where each fragment is a documentary confirmation of the struggle. However, for Petro, this is not only about the past, but also about the future: "I want Ukraine to start teaching history from the first grade or from kindergarten. When the child knows that this is a holy place, he will turn to everything in a completely different way."

The story of Petro Kozliuk is the voice of a village that remembers itself. Its mission is to restore Chaikivka's face, identity and dignity. And his words sound like a will: "We are free people. And our story is important."