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PoetryThe Tale of Igor's CampaignСлово о полку ІгоревімAnonymous · 1187A poem from the end of the twelfth century about an expedition of princes against those of the steppe, known from a single copy, which burned.LiteraturePublic domain
EpicAeneidЕнеїдаIvan Kotliarevsky · 1798A burlesque poem in six parts, begun around 1794, some twenty years after the destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich, which gives Virgil's Trojans the language, the cooking and the customs of the Ukraine of its day.Literature
PoetryПан та собакаPetro Hulak-Artemovsky · 1818not translated into EnglishA verse fable of 1818, published in a Kharkiv journal, in which the blows received by a yard dog describe the condition of the serf under a master whom nothing constrains.Literature
PoetryОпыт собрания старинных малороссийских песнейMykola Tsertelev · 1819not translated into EnglishA collection of 1819, in which the epic songs of the Cossacks pass from the memory of itinerant singers into print.Literature
PoetryMarusiaМарусяLevko Borovykovsky · 1829A ballad of 1829 in which a night of village divination, the poured wax and the omens read in it open onto a ghost story.Literature
TheatreСватання на ГончарівціHryhoriy Kvitka-Osnovianenko · 1836not translated into EnglishA comedy first staged in Kharkiv in 1836, about an arranged marriage in a suburb of the city, written in the speech and according to the customs of its inhabitants.Literature
PoetryРусалка ДністроваяMarkiyan Shashkevych · 1837not translated into EnglishAn almanac of 1837, printed in Buda to escape the censorship of Lviv, and almost entirely seized as soon as it returned to the country.Literature
PoetryДумки і пісні та ще дещоAmvrosiy Metlynsky · 1839not translated into EnglishA collection from 1839, published under a pseudonym, in which Ukrainian Romanticism takes on its darkest tone, that of foretold disappearance.Literature
PoetryKobzarКобзарTaras Shevchenko · 1840First collection, published in 1840 in Petersburg, eight poems written in a language that the Empire regarded as a peasants' dialect.Literature
PoetryДивлюсь я на небоMykhailo Petrenko · 1841not translated into EnglishA poem of 1841 about a man who would like to leave the earth, which has become one of the songs that the whole country knows by heart.Literature
NarrativeМесть верховинцяMykola Ustyianovych · 1849not translated into EnglishA narrative of 1849, written in a mountain parish, and built on the customs and speech of the villages of the high valleys.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryСкит МанявськийAntin Mohylnytsky · 1852not translated into EnglishAn unfinished poem, published in parts in Austrian Galicia, that draws a national grandeur from the legends of the Carpathians.Literature
NovelThe Black CouncilЧорна радаPanteleimon Kulish · 1857A novel from 1857 set in the Ukraine of the 1660s, split between two banks and two allegiances, and built around an election assembly that went wrong.Literature
Short storiesUkrainian Folk StoriesНародні оповіданняMarko Vovchok · 1858First collection, published in 1857, in which serfdom is told through the voices of those who endure it.Literature
PoetryБайкиLeonid Hlibov · 1863not translated into EnglishA fable collection from 1863, in which barnyard and forest animals replay justice, forced labour and the manners of the powerful.Literature
TaleНародні південноруські казкиIvan Rudchenko · 1869not translated into EnglishA collection of folk tales in two volumes, published in 1869 and 1870 under a Russian title, the texts being printed in the language of the storytellers.Literature
NovelMykola DzheryaМикола ДжеряIvan Nechuy-Levytsky · 1878A narrative of 1878 that follows a serf from the Kyiv region from the time of forced labour to the first years after its abolition.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelDo Oxen Low When Mangers Are Full?Хіба ревуть воли, як ясла повні?Panas Myrny and Ivan Bilyk · 1880A novel of 1880 that goes back over a century of history of a village in the Poltava region to seek where one man's violence comes from.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryСпівомовкиStepan Rudansky · 1880not translated into EnglishA 1880 collection in which village anecdotes pass into short verses and exchanges of lines, in a form its author had invented and named himself.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreГлитай, або ж ПавукMarko Kropyvnytskyi · 1882not translated into EnglishA drama in four acts from 1882, about a village moneylender and the web he weaves around a woman whose husband has left.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelLiuboratskiЛюборацькіAnatoliy Svydnytsky · 1887A family novel written in the early 1860s, in a Podolia of village parishes and clerical schools, and left in manuscript for a quarter of a century.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreОй не ходи, Грицю, та й на вечорниціMykhailo Starytsky · 1887not translated into EnglishA village drama born of a folk song, in which a rival's money disturbs the love of two young people.Literature
TheatreMartyn BoruliaМартин БоруляIvan Karpenko-Kary · 1891Tragicomedy in five acts, written in exile and first staged in 1891, in which a wealthy peasant spends his fortune on a title of nobility.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreStolen HappinessУкрадене щастяIvan Franko · 1893A drama in five acts first staged in 1893, about an unhappy marriage in a Carpathian village and what a man from the past brings back to it.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeThe Stone CrossКамінний хрестVasyl Stefanyk · 1900A tale of the emigration of Galician peasants to Canada, at the end of the nineteenth century: an old man leaves the hill he has farmed all his life.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryРозсипані перлиVasyl Pachovsky · 1901not translated into EnglishA collection of 1901: love songs and poems in the manner of folk songs, by a twenty-three-year-old poet from Lviv.Literature
NovelЗемляOlha Kobylianska · 1902not translated into EnglishA novel of 1902 about a peasant family of Bukovina set against itself by the possession of the land.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelFata MorganaMykhailo Kotsiubynsky · 1904An unfinished narrative about the hopes of a landless Ukrainian village, before and during the peasant uprisings of 1905.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryУкраїніVolodymyr Samiylenko · 1906not translated into EnglishA collection of 1906, printed in Austrian Galicia, in which civic poetry and political satire go hand in hand.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryОгнецвітHrytsko Chuprynka · 1910not translated into EnglishA first collection, published in 1910: a civic and sonorous poetry, between peasant poverty, dungeons and the quest for a legendary happiness.Literature
NovelКамінна душаHnat Khotkevych · 1911not translated into EnglishA narrative of 1911 about the oprychky, brigands of the Carpathians, and about a young priest's wife who comes to live among the Hutsuls.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreThe Forest SongЛісова пісняLesya Ukrainka · 1918A fairy drama in three acts, written in 1911 and staged only in 1918, in which a creature of the woods leaves her tree to live among those who die.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryClarinets of the SunСонячні кларнетиPavlo Tychyna · 1918A 1918 collection in which nature is listened to more than looked at, and whose last poems carry the hope of 1917 and then the war.Literature
PoetryСтилет і стилосYevhen Malanyuk · 1925not translated into EnglishThe first collection published by an officer of the defeated Ukrainian army, written in the internment camps and in exile.Literature
NarrativeIn the GrainfieldsВ житахHryhoriy Kosynka · 1926An impressionistic tale of the civil war, in which a deserter hiding in the middle of the wheat fields rediscovers the will to live.LiteraturePublic domain
Short storiesRed CavalryКонарміяIsaac Babel · 1926A collection of 1926 drawn from the campaign of 1920, which its author followed on horseback in the Red cavalry as a correspondent, under a false name.Literature
CinemaTaras ShevchenkoТарас ШевченкоPyotr Chardynin · 1926A silent film in two parts, made in 1926 by the Ukrainian state studio, which runs from serfdom to deportation.Cinema
NovelВальдшнепиMykola Khvylovy · 1927Unfinished novel of 1927, made up of debates of ideas on revolution and nation, the second part of which was destroyed.LiteraturePublic domain
NarrativeВертепArkadiy Lyubchenko · 1927not translated into EnglishA 1927 narrative in the form of a modern Christmas crib, in which ideas and feelings play the parts.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe CityМістоValerian Pidmohylny · 1928A novel of 1928 about a village boy who comes to Kyiv and becomes a writer at the price of what he once was.Literature
NovelРобітні силиMykhailo Ivchenko · 1929not translated into EnglishA novel from 1929 on the place of a scholar in the Soviet country, and on the culture and nation that the new intelligentsia wished to build.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelЧорний АнгелOleksa Slisarenko · 1929not translated into EnglishAn adventure novel of ideas set on an agricultural commune in Polesia in the aftermath of the civil war.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreMyna MazailoМина МазайлоMykola Kulish · 1929A comedy of 1929, written in the time of Ukrainisation, on the family name and the choice between two languages.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaArsenalАрсеналOleksandr Dovzhenko · 1929A silent film of 1929 on the strike and revolt at the Kyiv arms factory, built from tableaux rather than plot.Cinema
CinemaMan with a Movie CameraЛюдина з кіноапаратомDziga Vertov · 1929A silent film of 1929 produced by the Ukrainian studio, whose credits announce that it has no script, no actors and no intertitles.Cinema
NovelПерша веснаHryhoriy Epik · 1931not translated into EnglishA novel of 1931 about the forced collectivisation of the countryside, published while it was taking place.Literature
NovelThe HorsemenВершникиYuri Yanovsky · 1935A novel in stories from 1935 about the fighting of 1919 and its aftermath, in which a family is torn apart between the opposing sides.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryЗелена ЄвангеліяBohdan-Ihor Antonych · 1938Fourth collection, published in Lviv in 1938 after its author's death, on what the living and the inert have in common.Literature
PoetryПоезіїVolodymyr Svidzinsky · 1940The last collection published in its author's lifetime, in 1940, after a long enforced silence: he had not been printed since 1927.Literature
PoetryДо сонцяPetro Karmansky · 1941not translated into EnglishA selection from forty years of verse by a poet of Lviv, published in Kyiv in 1941 after the arrival of Soviet power in Galicia.Literature
CinemaTaras ShevchenkoТарас ШевченкоIhor Savchenko · 1951A biographical film from 1951 about the Ukrainian national poet, shot at the Kyiv studio and completed by other hands than those who had begun it.Cinema
CinemaТривожна молодістьOleksandr Alov and Volodymyr Naumov · 1955A 1955 film based on a trilogy for young readers, shot in the very city where the story is set.Cinema
CinemaSpring on Zarechnaya StreetВесна на Зарічній вулиціMarlen Khutsiev and Felix Mironer · 1956A 1956 chronicle set in a steelmaking town, where a factory man and a schoolteacher from elsewhere do not quite speak the same language.Cinema
CinemaДорогою ціноюMark Donskoy · 1957A 1957 film after Kotsiubynsky, about two serfs separated by a master's will who take the road to the Danube.Cinema
CinemaShadows of Forgotten AncestorsТіні забутих предківSergei Parajanov · 1965A film from 1965 shot among the Hutsuls of the Carpathians after a story by Kotsiubynsky, which proceeds by tableaux, colours and songs rather than by plot.Cinema
CinemaFaithfulnessВірністьPetro Todorovsky · 1965The first film by its director, in 1965, about the few months separating a military school from the rear of the front.Cinema
CinemaWar and PeaceВійна і мирSergei Bondarchuk · 1967A four-part adaptation of Tolstoy's novel, filmed over more than five years with the resources of a state.Cinema
NovelThe CathedralСоборOles Honchar · 1968A novel of 1968 about a factory suburb where a Cossack cathedral survives, and about what the people there are ready to defend.Literature
CinemaThe Stone CrossКамінний хрестLeonid Osyka · 1968A film of 1968 based on two short stories by Stefanyk, about an old peasant who leaves his hill and about a village night.Cinema
CinemaThe White Bird Marked with BlackБілий птах з чорною ознакоюYuri Illienko · 1970A film from 1970 about a family whose sons part ways as the war passes through, in a region that has changed countries several times.Cinema
CinemaThe CommissarsКомісариMykola Mashchenko · 1971A film about activists sent to school in 1921, and about what divides them when the authorities change policy.Cinema
CinemaThe Lost LetterПропала грамотаBorys Ivchenko · 1972A tragic comedy with songs from 1972, after a story by Gogol, in which two Cossacks carry a message to the empress.Cinema
CinemaOnly Old Men Are Going to BattleВ бій ідуть самі старикиLeonid Bykov · 1974A 1974 film about a fighter squadron that has put together an orchestra, and about a captain who would like to spare the youngest.Cinema
NovelMarusia ChuraiМаруся ЧурайLina Kostenko · 1979A verse novel of 1979 about the trial of a songwriter in seventeenth-century Poltava.Literature
CinemaThe Chumaks' WayЧумацький шляхVolodymyr Honcharov · 1980An animated film based on the legend that explains why Ukrainians call the Milky Way the road of the salt carriers.Cinema
CinemaFlights in Dreams and RealityПольоти уві сні та наявуRoman Balayan · 1983A 1983 film about a man of forty who does not know what to do with it, shot in Kyiv on the eve of change.Cinema
CinemaRaspadРозпадMykhailo Belikov · 1990A 1990 film about the days following the Chernobyl accident, and the silence that covered them.Cinema