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The study is devoted to the early period of Vojtech Tvrdý´s life. It focuses primarily on his family background, childhood and partly also on nationally oriented scene of Žilina in the early of the 20th century. It´s mapping his secondary education and university studies in Budapest, which chronologically belong to the late period of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It also notes the response coup in 1918 in Žilina.