Мартин Боруля (Іван Карпенко-Карий)

This article contains the full text of Ivan Karpenko-Karyi’s comedy Martyn Borulia (written 1886, first published 1891), in the 1921 Lviv edition: a prosperous farmer of the petty gentry spends years and money proving his nobility, sues a landowner who called him “cattle” and refuses his daughter’s sweetheart in favour of a clerk from town. Level B2 suits readers who can follow quick spoken dialogue in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of ranks and lawsuits, family forms of address, and how Russian and Polish words colour the speech of officials and petty gentry, along with the older spellings of the edition, such as память and щож.