Tiger Trappers (Ukrainian: Тигролови, also translated as The Hunters and the Hunted and Tiger Catchers) is an adventure novel with the autobiographical elements from Ivan Bagriany life, written and published in 1944 as "Animal Catchers" in the Evening Hour magazine in Lviv...[1] The draft of the original text remained in Soviet Ukraine and after Bagriany removed to Germany in 1944-1946, he had completely restored the text from memory; this restored version was published in 1946 under the name of the Tiger Trappers at the "Prometheus" publishing house in Neu-Ulm.