001bis. Marusja Čuraj / Маруся Чурай
Remember Marusja Čuraj , the legendary folk heroine who was the subject of our first post? Her reputation in Ukrainian literature and culture would seem to be based upon the enormous popularity that she garnered in the romantic era when Marusja was featured in several literary works, including a tale in Ukrainian by H. F. Kvitka-Osnovjanenko (1834) and one in Russian by A. A. Šachovskoj (1839). Marusja was also the subject of a children's story authored by the well-known woman writer "Marko Vovčok" (a pseudonym for Marija Aleksandrovna Markovič, née Vilinskaja, 1833-1907). Her tale, entitled "Marusja" (1871) was widely translated. This is the cover of the French edition (1878) – from which Vovčok's own name was omitted! O, students , so many projects come to mind! Why not research the context of this story's writing and publication , for example? Was it really written in Paris in the 1860s – and in Ukrainian – as alleged on the Ukrainian Wikip...