Marko Vovchok

Maria Vilinska was born in 1833 in the Orel governorate, in Russia, the daughter of an officer and of a mother from the lesser nobility. Raised by an aunt, she studied in Kharkiv and then in Orel. Married in 1851 to the ethnographer Opanas Markovych, a former member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, she lived with him in Chernihiv, Kyiv and Nemyriv, where she learned the language and customs of the villages. Having left in 1859, she spent eight years in Europe, mostly in France, where she worked with the publisher Hetzel. Back in Petersburg, she wrote and translated for the Russian journals. She died in 1907 in Dolinsk, in the Caucasus.

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• Short storiesUkrainian Folk StoriesНародні оповіданняMarko Vovchok · 1858Literature