The book ‘Masquerade’ is a collection of selected prose by Olga Petrivna Dragomanova-Kosach, an outstanding Ukrainian writer who most often appeared under the pseudonym Olena Pchilka. In the national cultural space, she did a lot not only as an author, but also as a public figure, ethnographer, translator, publisher and patron of the arts. Olena Pchilka's multifaceted creative nature is revealed in prose written in different stylistic tones. Similarly, the female images in these works are very different: tender, vulnerable, uninhibited, strong-willed or, conversely, limited and quarrelsome, but most importantly - they are all very alive.