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Read Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s Marusia in Ukrainian. Level C1: a village girl, a young coat-maker and the old rites of matchmaking, with word translation.
Village life of the 1830s, matchmaking and betrothal rites (старости, рушники, бояре, дружки), wedding songs, tender diminutives (рученьки, слїзоньки), Left-Bank vernacular (впять, биля, тогдї), Zhelekhivka spelling (дїло, сьвіт, оглядиш ся), long narrative sentences
This article contains the full text of Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko’s sentimental novella Marusia (written 1832, published 1834), often called the first Ukrainian novella, about the love between a well-off farmer’s daughter and a poor orphaned coat-maker from the town; it is not Marko Vovchok’s later story of the same name. Level C1 suits readers who can follow long sentences and old spellings in Ukrainian. You will learn the vocabulary of village life, matchmaking and betrothal rites and wedding songs, and the Zhelekhivka spelling of the 1911 edition.
