Тіні минулого (Клим Поліщук)

This article contains Тіні минулого (“Shadows of the Past”), a book of Volhynian legends by Klym Polishchuk, printed in Kyiv in 1919: 13 of its 14 legends, told to a travelling narrator by old men, a coachman and a blind lirnyk, about Colonel Chatsky’s stone head on the Teteriv, the Maiden’s Hill, bells ringing under the earth, the Cossack graves of Berestechko, the haidamaks of Shvachka and Khorko, the treasure of Kremenets castle, Hunger in person and the ghosts of the Krasnopil palace. Level C1 suits readers who handle long descriptive sentences and older spelling in Ukrainian. You will practise the vocabulary of Cossack and haidamak history, folk belief and church holidays, and 1919 forms such as се for це, люде for люди and кождий for кожний.