Marko Vovchok

Marko Vovchok was a Russian and Ukrainian translator, writer and editor (1833–1907). She was born at Yekaterininskoye and died at Nalchik.

Also recorded as Mariia Markovich; Mariia Lobach-Zhuchenko; Mariia Vilinskaia; Mariia Oleksandrivna Vilinska; Mariia Markovych; Mariia Aleksandrovna Vilinskaia.

Marko Vovchok in brief

Born
1833
Died
1907
Known for
translator, writer and editor
Place of birth
Yekaterininskoye
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Identity and origins

Marko Vovchok was recorded at birth as Мария Александровна Вилинская-Маркович. She also worked under the names Марко Вовчок, Я. Канонин and Marko Vovchok. The authorities additionally record the headings Mariia Markovich, Mariia Lobach-Zhuchenko, Mariia Vilinskaia, Mariia Oleksandrivna Vilinska and Mariia Markovych. Her recorded languages were Ukrainian, French and Russian.

She married Opanas Markovych. One child is recorded: Bohdan Markovych.

Catalogued works

37 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library.

Instytutka. Polnoe sobranīe sochinenīĭ. Vykup ; Son ; Maksym Hrimach ; Chary ; Chumak ; Otet︠s︡ʹ Andriĭ. Ukrainskīe narodnye razskazy. Емансипатка. Ne do pari. Bohdaniv synok. Marusi︠a︡. Zapiski prichetnika. Vybrani tvory. Tvory Marka Vovchka. Krynychka. Virna para ta inshe. Pisʹma. Народнї оповіданя. Opovidannia. Dva syny. Razskazy iz narodnago russkago byta. Skazki i bylʹ. Devi͡atʹ brativ i desi͡ata sestryt͡si͡a Hali͡a. Karmeli︠u︡k ; Nevilʹnychka. Rassaky iz russkogo narodnogo byta ; Zapiski prichetnika. Kozachka. Tvory v dvokh tomakh. Opovidanni︠a︡, kazky, povisti, roman. After finishing School. Alma viviente. Rasskazy iz russkogo narodnogo byta ; Zapiski prichetnika. Narodni pisni v zapysakh Marka Vovchka. Zhivaya dusha. Rasskazy i povesti. Rasskazy iz narodnogo russkogo byta. Opovidanni︠a︡ ta povisti. Sobranie sochineniĭ. Tvory v trʹokh tomakh. Narodni opovidanni︠a︡. Sochinenīi︠a︡.

Literature

10 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Marko Vovchok and Leo Tolstoi, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 1972. ART SPECIFICS OF «FORGOTTEN» FAIRY-TALE PROSE BY MARKO VOVCHOK, LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2022. Marko Vovchok as a Cultural Mediator: A State-of-the-Art Review, Umjetnost riječi, 2025. Normalising a Ukrainian Intellectual Identity in the Nineteenth Century: The Role of Marko Vovchok (1833-1907), Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, 2021. The Motive of Betrayal in the Literary Ballad of Borys Grinchenko and Marko Vovchok, LITERARY PROCESS: methodology, names, trends, 2025. VOLODYMYR VINNICHENKO’S NOVEL “THE NEW COMMANDMENT”: POETICS AND FORMS OF EXISTENTIAL SELF-REFLECTION, Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2023. Pedagogical Ideas of L. N. Tolstoy and His Correspondence with Russian Women Writers in the 1860s, Два века русской классики, 2024. Marko Vovchok as a Cultural Mediator: A State-of-the-Art Review, Umjetnost Riječi, 2025. In the communication environment of Ukrainian intellectuals in the mid-19th century: Opanas Markovych’s letters to Hryhoriy Galagan, Київські історичні студії, 2022. Les premières traductions russes du roman l’Homme qui rit de Victor Hugo (1869), Revue des études slaves, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

5 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

MELASIA AND THE BEAR - ENGLISH - SOVIET CHILDREN'S LITERATURE — Internet Archive. Melasia And The Bear — Internet Archive. To fortællinger (1876) — Internet Archive. Maroessia: De Ukraineesche Jeanne D'Arc — Project Gutenberg. Maroussia — Project Gutenberg.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 30 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1833Marko Vovchok born at Yekaterininskoye.
  2. 1876To fortællinger digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1907Marko Vovchok died at Nalchik.

Sources

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  1. 1.

    “Marko Vovchok”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q2421158: Marko Vovchok

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