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vintage-ukraine · 1 year

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Sophia Karaffa-Korbut`s cover for “Fox Mykyta” by Ivan Franko, 1973

#Sophia Karaffa-Korbut #Ivan Franko #1970s #Ukrainian Fairy Tales #vintage book covers #vintage books #book illustration #vintage book illustration #ukrainian art

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e-louise-bates · 1 year

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Anyone have any tips on where I can find a collection of Ukrainian fairy tales/folk tales (in English, unfortunately, as I never learned Ukrainian)? All my usual resources have failed me.

#ukraine #ukrainian fairy tales

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thefugitivesaint · 6 months

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Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut (1886-1920), ''Soloveĭ: Skazka Andersena'' (The Nightingale: A Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen), 1912 Source

#Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut #Heorhiy Narbut #George Narbut #ukrainian artists #the nightingale #hans christian andersen #fairy tales #children's stories #vintage illustration #silhouette art

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theophan-o · 4 months

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A very special New Year Gift for a very special Friend, @wanderer-on-the-steppe, who brings so much joy to my life!

This time there was no particular reference for the picture. I just looked into my soul and drew, what I have seen there. As a result I have got some strange Slavic mixture: H. Sienkiewicz's "Trylogia" universe (but more as seen by my favorite book illustrator, Jan Marcin Szancer)... Ukrainian fairy tales... art depictions of Cossack heroes (both Ukrainian and Polish)... Eastern Orthodox icon painting (my only one "professional" art experience). I hope you can like it, after all Theophan-o is also a strange Slavic mixture. And I really love the World where I belong.

Dear Friends, happy New Year to all of you! May it be better than 2023 and 2022! If you see this Cossack Princess riding to you with my greetings, you can be sure, that you occupy a very special place in my heart!

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piroshky · 1 year

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The Tales of Foggy Albion, Vladyslav Yerko, 2003.

#ukrainian art #ukrainian illustration #fairy tale illustration #british folklore #english folklore #childrens illustration #fantasy illustration #knights #castles #horses #art #illustration #my post

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canberramaidan · 1 month

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Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine.

#ukraine #castle #eastern europe #europe #fortress #kamianets-podilskyi #fairy tale #ukrainian history

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unhonestlymirror · 9 months

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The Cossack Mamaryga

Based on Ukrainian folk tales

Illustrations - M. Yermak

Part 1

For twenty-five years, the Cossack Mamaryga served his master and earned three copper coins only.

The Cossack has been tired of mercenarying since childhood. It's not a Cossack thing, even if the evil forced... He decided to go see the world, to see people, to look for happiness.

Mamaryga walked for a long time. Suddenly, he saw: a poor hut was standing. An old woman was crying near the house.

- Why are you crying, grandma? - asked Cossack.

- How can I not cry? My house will soon fall apart, and I have no strength to fix it.

- Don't worry, I'll fix your house!

Mamaryga did everything right. The old woman thanked him:

- Thank you, Cossack! Take a bag made from magic braided hair. You ask it - it will do any work for you.

The Cossack thanked and went on his way.

Mamaryga walked, walked, and on the way, he met an old grandfather:

- Where are you going, grandpa?

- I go from village to village. I play the kobza, I sing songs about the Cossacks. People are listening. Someone gives a kulish, someone gives a piece of bread...

- Grandpa, take these three coins. I don't have any more. Maybe you will need them.

- Thank you, Cossack! And you accept my boots for that. They are not average - in a moment, you will relocate you to anywhere you need to go. And if evil happens - they will save you.

Mamaryga went further. Suddenly, he saw: people ran towards him.

- Who are you running away from? - asked Mamaryga.

- Evil is chasing us - the people answered. - He settled on that mountain, a six-headed zmiy. He kills people and takes away their good. And whoever he does not kill, he will take prisoner, he will forever imprison in the mountain.

- There are many of you, but there is only one zmiy, will you not overcome him?

- You can't recognize him right away... Sometimes, he turns into a warrior, and then he turns into a zmiy again. There is no one stronger than him in the world.

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Zmiy - "snake", a dragon, an evil spirit.

Kulish - a dish of Belaruthian and Ukrainian cuisine: in Belaruthian cuisine it is porridge made of flour with lard; in Ukrainian cuisine - a millet dish on meat broth or on water, which is rubbed with lard with onions and garlic

#fairy tales #Ukraine #Ukrainian culture #Ukrainian art #ukrart

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mlishchinska · 2 years

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Телесик / Telesyk, 1987

Художниця: Валентина Мельниченко

Artist: Valentyna Melnychenko

#телесик #telesyk #folktale #children books #fairy tale art #ukrainian art #ukraine #україна

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thisprettyukrainianletter · 2 years

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Збірка казок “Нечиста сила” авторства Василя Короліва-Старого (1923) Ілюстрації: Кость Лавро (1992)

A fairy tales collection "Devilry" by Vasyl Koroliv-Staryi (1923) Illustrations: Kost Lavro (1992)

#ukraine #illustration #art #tales #fairy tales #folk tales motifs #devilry #chort #mermaid #mithology #koroliv-staryi #lavro #graphics #ukrainian art #україна #ілюстрація

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bardicious · 6 months

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Genuinely, I think America and similar thinking countries, should be embarrassed that nudity is inherently seen as sexual. Like, jfc.

#nudity #art stuff #this sure as fuck isn’t how I grew up #I remember quite a many fairy tale books that depicted nudity #they were Russian or Ukrainian tho #and I honestly think lots of other countries are the same?#brought to you by #me making a coloring book for adults but wondering if people would take up issue with the nudity anyhow #especially if someone buys it for their kid #it’s just dumb

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anastasiamaru · 1 year

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Mavka

🎨:Maria Bezkorovaina

The spirits known by this term represented the souls of girls who had died unnatural tragic or premature deaths.Mavkas often appeared in the form of beautiful young girls who enticed and lured young men into the woods, where they "tickled" them to death

They were believed to live in groups in forests, mountain caves, or sheds, which they decorated with rugs. They made thread of stolen flax and wove thin transparent cloth for making clothes for themselves. They loved flowers, which they wore in their hair.

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vintage-ukraine · 1 year

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In the Early Spring. Fairy Tales and Stories by Olena Tsehelska, illustrated by Mykhailo Malevych, 1969

#Olena Tsehelska #Mykhailo Malevych #fairy tale illustration #Ukrainian Fairy Tales #Ukrainian art #book illustration #vintage book illustration #vintage book covers #vintage books #Ukrainian book #1960s

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ana-rinray-art · 9 months

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Just a sparrow in a cloak

#art #digital art #sketch #artists on tumblr #sparrow #digital painting #fantasy #fairy tale #illustration #portrait #commission #ukrainian art

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clemsfilmdiary · 2 years

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The Vanquishing of Baba Yaga (2014, Jessica Oreck)

8/4/22

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thatonegaybastard · 1 year

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Simon: these days nothing is what it seeeems his head(?) My paws they haunt my dreams my reflection tells me whether I should learn to fear the feather and to not forget my mtoherrhdhdjxhzhzhxh

#Why does this line in a song about a Ukrainian fairy tale kind of fit Simon. Except the mother part. If it wasn't mother then it'd fit #Better

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piroshky · 1 year

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The Tales of Foggy Albion, Vladyslav Yerko, 2003.

#ukrainian artists #ukrainian art #ukrainian illustration #british folklore #british fairy tales #knights #fantasy art #fantasy illustration #english folklore #english fairy tales #art #illustration #my post

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