CARPATHO-RUSYN CULTURE
By Bogdan Horbal ©1996 all rights reserved.
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Materials on Carpatho-Rusyn culture include several basic publications:
Sergiei Konstantinovich Makovski (1877-1947), Narodnoe iskusstvo
Podkarpatskoi Rusy [National Art of Subcarpathian Rus'], Prague, 1925;
Tradytsyina kultura iugoslovianskykh rusynokh [Traditional
Culture of the Yugoslavian Rusyns], Novy Sad, 1971;
Iulyian Kolesar (1927-1992),
Ystoryia ruskoho narodnoho mena [History of the Rusyn National
Name], Montreal, 1973;
Roman Reinfuss (b.1910), Sladami £emków
[In the Footsteps of Lemkos], Warsaw, 1990.
Elias Tziorogh
(1880-1942), Podkarpatskiji Rusyny, karpatorusskij hymn i mars dla
smisannoho chora [Subcarpathian Rusyns, Carpatho-Russian National
Anthem and March for the Mixed Chorus], [New York? 1927];
There are four different descriptions of Lemko wedding:
Vladymir Khyliak
(1843-1893), "Svadebni zvychai u Lemkov" [Lemko Wedding Customs],
Nauchno-Literaturnyi Sbornik Galitsko-Russkoi Matitsy, (L'viv,
1871);
Dymytryj Kachor (1890-1925), Lemkovskij spivannyk. Vesillia,
L'viv, 1923;
Ivan Bugera, Ukraiins'ke vesilia na Lemkivshyni [Ukrainian
Wedding in the Lemko Region], L'viv, 1936;
Van'o Hunianka [Dymitrii Vyslotskii]
(1888-1968) Compiler, Lemkovske vesilia: zlozhene Lemkovskyma zhenamy v
Klivlandi i zohrane v 1932 r. [Lemko Wedding: Prepared by Lemko Women
in Cleveland and Performed in 1932], Cleveland, 1933.
There is also a number of books containing scores and words of Rusyn folk
songs:
Rus'ki Narodny pisni v Podkarpatskoi Rusy [Rusyn Folk
Songs in Subcarpathian Rus'], Prague, 19--;
Filyaret Kolessa (1871-1947),
Zakarpats'ki narodni pisni [Transcarpathian Folk Songs], Kyiiv
1962;
Anton Hodynka (1864-1946), Pisni nashykh predkiv [Songs
of Our Forefathers], Budapest-Uzhhorod, 1993.
Mykhailo Hyriak,
Poetyka ukrains'kykh narodnykh lirychnych pisen' Skhidnoi Slovachchyny
[Poetic of Ukrainian Folk Lyric Songs of Eastern Slovakia], Presov, 1989;
Mykola
Mushynka (b.1936), Z hlybyny vikiv; antolohiia usnoi narodnoi
tvorchosti ukraintsiv Skhidnoi Slovachchyny [From the Deep of the
Centuries; An Anthology of Spoken Folk Art of the Ukrainians of Eastern
Slovakia], Presov, 1967;
Mykola Kseniak, Bajky [Fairy-Tales],
Presov, 1970.
Complementing these studies are works describing different aspects of
Carpatho-Rusyn culture:
Wincenty Pol (1807-1872), "Górale Czuhonkowi"
[Highlanders Who Wear Hun'kas], in: Archiwum Etnograficzne, XXIX, Wroclaw 1966,
p.95-137;
Yulian Yavorski, Iz karpato-russkago fol'klora [From
Carpatho-Russian Folklore], Kharkov, 1909;
Gustaf Bolinder (1888-19??)
Hos Karpaternas Folk [Folklore of the Carpathians], Stockholm,
1937;
Bela Gunda (b.1911), Ethnographica Carpathica [Carpathian
Ethnography], Budapest, 1966; £emkowie: katalog wystawy
[Lemkos: Exhibition Catalog], Nowy Sacz 1984;
Narodna arkhitektura
ukrains'kych Karpat XV-XX st. [Folk Architecture of Ukrainian
Carpathians Fifteenth to Twentieth Century], Kyiv 1987;
Zakarpats'ki
narodni stravy [Transcarpathian National Food], Uzhhorod, 1990.
There are also several albums of paintings by recognized artists of
Carpatho-Rusyn origin (or just born in or creating in the region). Among these
are three different editions (1971, 1974, 1979) of works by Igor Grabar
(1885-1960), along with two editions of his letters (covering periods: 1891-1917
and 1941-1960). The Library possesses not only a selection (in a form of an
album) of paintings by Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900), St. Paul, 1981 and his
partial biography by Joseph Kohnen, Munkacsy and Luxembourg,
Luxembourg, 1984, but also several of Munkacys' paintings, including: Blind
Milton dictating "Paradise Lost" to his daughters (oil on
canvas, 1877) and his bust (bronze, 1878) by a French sculptor Louis Ernest
Barrias (1841-1905). Among other albums there are: Adalbert Erdeli (1891-1955):
[albom], Kyiv, 1972 and [Exhibition Catalog],
Uzhhorod, 1994; Ernest Kontratovych (b.1912), [albom], Kyiv,
1973.
There is also: Izobrazytelnoe iskusstvo Zakarpatia. Zhivopis.
Skulptura. Grafika. Monument. [albom] [Visual Art of the
Transcarpathian Region, Paintings, Sculptures, Graphics, Monuments], Moscow,
[1973], with an introduction by another recognized Carpatho-Rusyn artist Iosyp
Bokshai (1891-1975). Some of his paintings were reproduced in Grigorii
Semanovich Ostrovski, "Iosif Bokshai", in: Iskusstvo, I
(Moscow, 1964), p.17-24 as well as in: Iosyp Bokshai, [Exhibition
Catalog], Uzhhorod, 1994.
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