The Black Council: read in Ukrainian (C1)
Read Kulish’s The Black Council in Ukrainian, complete. Level C1: Cossack Ukraine in 1663, a love story and a hetman election, with word translation.
Чорна рада (Пантелеймон Куліш)
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What you'll learn
Narrative past tense, historical narration and lively dialogue with forms of address, vocabulary of Cossack ranks, arms and politics (гетьман, булава, бунчук, старшина, посполитий), older forms such as од for від, reflexive past in -всь, long adjectives in -ії, єсть and послі, Church Slavonic touches (рече, благословеніє), Ukrainian prose of the 1850s
This article contains the full text of Panteleimon Kulish’s historical novel The Black Council (first published 1857), in the 1943 Kraków-Lviv edition: in 1663 the old colonel and priest Shram and his son Petro travel through a divided Ukraine, from Cherevan’s farm near Kyiv to the hetman Somko and the Zaporozhians gathering around Ivan Briukhovetsky. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long narrative passages in Ukrainian and want to read older literary forms. You will learn the vocabulary of Cossack ranks, arms and politics and older forms such as од for від, -всь for -вся and long adjectives in -ії.
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