Царівна (Ольга Кобилянська)

This article contains the complete novel Царівна (The Princess) by Olha Kobylianska, printed in Chernivtsi in 1896 and kept in its original Zhelekhivka spelling. Most of it is the diary of Natalka Verkovychivna, an orphan in a Bukovynian town who wants a life of her own and work that matters, torn between a proud, unreliable young man and a marriage of convenience; the last chapters turn to third-person narration. Level C1 suits readers who handle long reflective sentences in Ukrainian. You will practise the vocabulary of feelings, family and education, regional words of Bukovyna, and the old spelling with ся written apart, єго for його and она for вона.