1. Marko Vovchok was a Ukrainian female writer of Russian descent.
24 Facts About Marko Vovchok
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Marko Vovchok's works had an anti-serfdom orientation and described the historical past of Ukraine.
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In terms of literary fiction, Marko Vovchok is considered to be one of the first influential modernist authors in Ukraine.
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Marko Vovchok's works "shaped the development of the Ukrainian short story".
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Marko Vovchok wrote in Russian Zhivaya dusha, Zapiski prichyotnika, V glushi, and several other novels.
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Marko Vovchok died on 10 August 1907 in Nalchik, Russian Empire.
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Marko Vovchok published several collections of short stories over her career.
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Marko Vovchok published her first collection in 1858 in St Petersburg entitled Narodni opovidannia.
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In 1862, Marko Vovchok published her second volume of folk stories in Ukrainian and she published a third in 1865.
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Marko Vovchok tended to write three broad categories of folk stories.
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Marko Vovchok often centered serfs, free peasants, or more traditional Ukrainian fables and tales.
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Marko Vovchok usually depicted women as the protagonists of these stories.
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Marko Vovchok's focus on women is present in almost all of her stories, regardless of plot and other themes.
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Marko Vovchok focused often on the domestic life of women, as well as the individual and specific difficulties they faced.
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Marko Vovchok wrote many stories about freed serfs, in which she focused more on the domestic life that was possible for members of the freed serf class.
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Marko Vovchok emphasizes the joys and hardships that freed serfs could face, but she often included the caveat that no matter the hardships freed serfs face, they were much happier just being out from under the yoke of serfdom.
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Marko Vovchok combined poetic and folk song influences with realism in many of her stories.
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Many of Marko Vovchok's stories containing anti-serfdom themes were published in the years before the Emancipation of the Serfs in 1861.
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Marko Vovchok dies soon after, wishing to return home to her mother and father.
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Marko Vovchok agrees as does the young woman after she is encouraged by her party guests.
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Marko Vovchok starts pushing and hitting Granny, and Prokip grabs her wrist to stop her.
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Marko Vovchok then accuses Prokip of attacking her and forces him into conscription.
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Kulish believed that Marko Vovchok would have a great career as a leader in Ukrainian literature and praised her for her mastery and poetic ability within the Ukrainian language.
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An accomplished translator herself, Marko Vovchok translated many of her stories into French which were then circulated throughout Europe.