poll: Which of the following works of the Ukrainian culture should be translated into English primarily?
1) " History of the Rus' or Little Russia" (a historical and political essay);
2) "Three Leaves Beyond the Window" by Valerii Shevchuk (a novel);
3) "From Lectures on the Theory of Literature: The Fable, the Adage, the Proverb" by Aleksander Potebnja (a study, series of lectures);
4) "Mary" by Taras Shevchenko (an apocryphal poem)
5) None of the above.
6) Your variant. —> people who voted for: History of the Rus' or Little Russia (Russian: Исторія Русовъ, или Малой Россіи) or History of the Rus' (Ukrainian: Історія русів) is a book about the history of the Rus' people (Ruthenians) and their state (Ruthenia or Little Russia) from ancient times up to 1769. The book was written as a political essay in the end of the 18th century by anonymous author and firstly published in 1846 in Moscow in Russian language by Osyp Bodianski.
History of the Rus focuses on two ideas. Firstly, it emphasize the historical difference and antagonism between Rus' (Ukraine) and Muscovy (Russia). Secondly, it accentuate on the historical continuity of the Rus' people (Ukrainians) from the medieval times of Kievan Rus' till the early modern Cossack state.
Despite numerous factual mistakes and exaggerations, History of the Rus' had a great impact on Ukrainian scholarship, works of prominent Ukrainian writers like Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko, and formation of Ukrainian national discourse of the 19th century.
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1) " History of the Rus' or Little Russia" (a historical and political essay);
2) "Three Leaves Beyond the Window" by Valerii Shevchuk (a novel);
3) "From Lectures on the Theory of Literature: The Fable, the Adage, the Proverb" by Aleksander Potebnja (a study, series of lectures);
4) "Mary" by Taras Shevchenko (an apocryphal poem)
5) None of the above.
6) Your variant. —> people who voted for: History of the Rus' or Little Russia (Russian: Исторія Русовъ, или Малой Россіи) or History of the Rus' (Ukrainian: Історія русів) is a book about the history of the Rus' people (Ruthenians) and their state (Ruthenia or Little Russia) from ancient times up to 1769. The book was written as a political essay in the end of the 18th century by anonymous author and firstly published in 1846 in Moscow in Russian language by Osyp Bodianski.
History of the Rus focuses on two ideas. Firstly, it emphasize the historical difference and antagonism between Rus' (Ukraine) and Muscovy (Russia). Secondly, it accentuate on the historical continuity of the Rus' people (Ukrainians) from the medieval times of Kievan Rus' till the early modern Cossack state.
Despite numerous factual mistakes and exaggerations, History of the Rus' had a great impact on Ukrainian scholarship, works of prominent Ukrainian writers like Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko, and formation of Ukrainian national discourse of the 19th century.
