List of Ukrainian folklore collections

The following is a list of collections containing Ukrainian folklore (chronological by year of publishing).

17th-18th century +CollectionCollector(s)PublishedNotable contentJan Dzwonowskis' Collection of satirical works Jan DzwonowskiKrakow, PLC, 1625Song of the Cossack Pliakhta (c. 1612)Manuscript collection of K.Kondracki (?)Krakow, PLC, 1693"Rushylysia zhovniry z obozu" (The Soldiers Left the Camp), "Oi, nedaleko od Manachyna" (Oh, Not Far from Manachyn), "Ne khody, panoiku do mlyna spaty" (Don't Go, Lady, to Sleep at the Mill), "Oi, tekut richeiky" (Oh, the Rivers Flow), "Ta na sim botsi na tolotsi" (And on This Side of the Meadow), Duma about the Cossack Holota, two humorous duma parodies "Pro vivcharia" (About the Shepherd) and "Pro teshchu" (About the Mother-in-Law), satire on King Jan Sobieski, pisnia "pro smert shliakhtycha Samiila Koretskoho v turetskomu poloni" (Song about the death of the nobleman Samuel Koretsky in Turkish captivity, 1622)Manuscript collection of the late 17th or early 18th centuryZakharii Dziubarevych (?)Cossack Hetmanate or Russian Empire, 18th centuryKants "Skazhy meni, soloveiko, pravdu" (Tell me the truth, nightingale), "Oi koly liubysh" (Oh, when you love), "Oi bida, bida, meni chaitsi nebozi" (Oh, trouble, trouble for me, poor seagull), "Ot neshchasnoi doli" (About an unhappy fate) Collection of Simple Russian songs with notesVasily TrutovskySaint Petersburg, Russian Empire, 1776-179513 lyrical and humorous songs such as "Oi koly ya Prudyusa liubyla" (Oh when I loved Prudius), "Oi poslala mene maty" (Oh, my mother sent me), "Na berezhku u stavka" (To the shore of the pond), etc.A Collection of Russian Folk Songs with Their VoicesNikolai Lvov and Ivan PrachRussian Empire, 1790, 180616 Ukrainian songs such as "Da orav muzhyk krai dorohy" (A Peasant Was Plowing by the Road) "Yikhav kozak za Dunai" (A Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube), "Oi pid vyshneiu" (Oh, Under the Cherry Tree), "Naishla mene maty v tynu" (My Mother Found Me in the Garden), "Kotylysia vozy z hory" (Carts Rolled Down the Hill)

19th century +CollectionCollectorsLocationPublishedNotable contentOpyt sobraniia starinnykh malorossiiskikh pesen (An Attempt at a Collection of Ancient Little Russian Songs)Nikolai TsertelevRussian EmpireRussian Empire, in 1819Malorossiiskie pesni (Little Russian Songs)Mykhailo MaksymovychRussian EmpireMoscow, Russian Empire, in 1827Pieśni polskie i ruskie ludu galicyjskiego (Polish and Ruthenian Songs of the Galician People)L. Gołębiowski, Wacław ZaleskiGalicia, Austrian EmpireLemberg, Austrian Empire, 1833Ukrainskie narodnye pesni (Ukrainian Folk Songs)Mykhailo MaksymovychRussian EmpireRussian Empire, in 1834Nas'ki ukraïns'ki kazky (Our Own Ukrainian Fairy Tales)Osyp BodianskyiRussian Empire1835Ukrainian fairy tales Rusalka Dnistrovaia (The Dnister Nymph)Ruthenian TriadAustrian EmpireBuda, Austrian Empire, in December 1836; republished in Ternopil (1910), Kyiv (1950, 1972), Philadelphia (1961)first Ukrainian literary and folkloric almanac published in GaliciaMalorossiskie i chervonorusskie narodnye dumy i pesni (Little Russian and Red Rus’ Folk Dumy and Songs)Platon LukashevychRed Ruthenia (western Ukraine), Austrian Empire and Malorossia (central Ukraine) region, Russian EmpireRussian Empire, in 1836176 folk songs of various genres, dumy about Samiilo Kishka, the Cossack Holota, and the storm on the Black Sea, and the captives’ lament6 Volume collection of dumy and historical songsIzmail SreznevskyKharkov gubernia, Poltava gubernia, and Yekaterinoslav gubernia of the Russian empireRussian Empire, 1833–8 in Zaporozhskaia starina (Zaporozhian Antiquity) Dumy and historical songs with commentariesPieśni ludu ruskiego w Galicyi (Songs of the Ruthenian People in Galicia)Żegota PauliGalicia, Austrian EmpireAustrian Empire, 2 vols, 1839–40Vinok rusynam na obzhynky (A Garland for Ruthenians during the Harvest)Yakiv HolovatskyiAustrian EmpireAustrian Empire, 1846–7transcriptions of folk talesSbornik ukrainskikh pesen (A Collection of Ukrainian Songs, pt 1)Mykhailo MaksymovychRussian EmpireKiev, Russian Empire, in 1849Narodnye iuzhnorusskie pesni (South Russian Folk Songs, 1854)Amvrosii MetlynskyiRussian Empire1854two-volume collection Zapiski o Iuzhnoi Rusi (Notes on Southern Rus’)Panteleimon Kulish, Lev ZhemchuzhnikovRussian EmpireRussian Empire, 1856–7Volume one consists of dumas, folk songs and legends about leading Zaporozhian Cossacks, Cossack battles against the Tatars, and struggles of the Cossacks against the Church Union of Berestia; Volume two contains folk tales recorded by Lev Zhemchuzhnikov, an account of a meeting with the kobzar Ostap Veresai, accounts of haidamaka uprisings (the manuscript of S. Zakrzewski), a number of articles on Ukrainian ethnography, and linguisticsGramatika česká (Czech Grammar)Jan Blahoslav (between 1551–71)village Benatok,Transcarpathia1857Song about Stephen the VoivodeYuzhno-ruski pisni z holosamy (South Russian songs with voices)Mykola MarkevychRussian Empire1857Lyrical, humorous songs, folk romances Ocherk staroslavianskogo basnosloviia, ili mifologiia (A Study of Old Slavic Fables, or Mythology)Yakiv Holovatskyi Slavic worldAustrian Empire, in 1860Study of Old Slavic Fables, or MythologyByt podolian (The Podilians’ Folkways)Kalenyk SheikovskyiPodolia, Russian Empire1860ethnographic study on folkways in Podolia Starosvetskii bandurista (Old World Banduryst)Mykola ZakrevskyiRussian Empire3 vols, 1860–1collection of dumas, folk songs, proverbs, and riddles, Vol.3 contained a dictionary of ukrainian idioms (over 11,000 words)Sobranye malorossyiskykh narodnykh pesen (v 2-kh ch., 1660-1861) “Collection of Little Russian Folk Songs” (in 2 parts, 1660-1861)Alois JedličkaRussian Empire1861Lyrical, humorous songs, folk romances Pisni, dumky i shumky ukrainskoho narodu na Podoli, Ukraini i v Malorosii (Songs, Dumy, and Shumky of the Ukrainian People in Podolia, Ukraine, and Little Russia)Antoni Kocipiński, othersPodolia, Southern Ukraine, Dnieper Ukraine, Russian Empire1861Ukrainski narodni pisni, vydani koshtom O.Balinoi (Ukrainian folk songs, published at the expense of O.Balina)Russian EmpireKharkov, Russian Empire, 1863 by O. BalinaVasylkovskyi solovei (The Nightingale of Vasylkiv)S. KarpenkoVasylkiv (Dnieper Ukraine), Russian Empire1864Lyrical, humorous songs, folk romances Ukraïns’ki prykazky, prysliv'ia ta inshe (Ukrainian Proverbs, Sayings, Etc)Matvii Nomys, Mykola Bilozersky, Vasyl Bilozersky, Panteleimon Kulish, Vasyl Lazarevsky, Opanas Markovych, Stepan Rudansky, and Marko VovchokRussian EmpireRussian Empire, in 1864, repr 1985collection of 14,339 proverbs and sayings (not including the variants) and 505 riddles "Narodni pisni z holosom" (Folk Songs with Voice”)Russian Empire1868 by Semen Hulak-ArtemovskyiZbirnyk ukraïns'kykh narodnykh pisen''' (A Collection of Ukrainian Folk Songs) |Mykola Lysenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Ivan Karpenko-Karyi, M. Sadovsky, M. Zankovetska, and others |Russian Empire |7 vols, 1868–1911 by Mykola Lysenko

| Malorusskie narodnye predaniia i rasskazy (Little Russian Folk Legends and Tales) |Mykhailo Drahomanov |Russian Empire |in 1876

|Trudy etnografichesko-statisticheskoi ekspeditsii v Zapadno-russkii krai (Works of the Ethnographic-Statistical Expedition to the West-Russian Region, 7 vols) |Pavlo Chubinskyi |Russian Empire |Russian Empire, 1872–9 |Vol.1 deals with folk beliefs, superstitions, proverbs, riddles, and spells; vol. 2 with folk tales and anecdotes; vol. 3 with the folk calendar, songs associated with spring rituals, harvest songs, and carols; vol. 4 with birth, baptism, wedding and funeral rites; vol. 5 with folk songs; vol. 6 with legal customs; and vol. 7 with the various peoples that lived in Ukraine |- |Narodnye pesni Galitskoi i Ugorskoi Rusi (Folk Songs of Galician and Hungarian Rus') |Yakiv Holovatskyi (between 1830–50) |Galicia and Transcarpathia, Austrian Empire |Moscow, in 1878 by Osyp Bodiansky

|Novi ukraïns’ki pisni pro hromads’ki spravy (Recent Ukrainian Songs on Social Topics) |Mykhailo Drahomanov |Russian Empire |1881

|Pokuttia|Oskar Kolberg |Pokuttia, Austro-Hungary |1882-89

| Politychni pisni ukraïns’koho narodu 18–19 st. (Political Songs of the Ukrainian People in the 18th and 19th Centuries) |Mykhailo Drahomanov |Russian Empire |2 vols, 1883–5

|Obiasneniia malorusskikh i srodnykh narodnykh pesen (Explanations of Little Russian and Related Folk Songs) |Oleksandr Potebnia |Russian Empire |Vol. 1, 1883; Vol. 1, 1887

|Khleb v obriadakh i pesniakh (Bread in [Folk] Rituals and Songs) |Mykola Sumtsov |Russian Empire |1885

|Narodnyi pisennyk z naikrashchykh ukraïns’kykh pisen’ (A Folk Songbook of the Best Ukrainian songs) |Volodymyr Aleksandrov |Russian Empire |1887

|Skazki, poslovitsy i t.p., zapisannye v Ekaterinoslavskoi i Khar'kovskoi guberniiakh (Tales, Proverbs, etc, Recorded in Katerynoslav and Kharkiv Gubernias) |Ivan Manzhura |Yekaterinoslav Gubernia (Steppe Ukraine) and Kharkov Gubernia (Sloboda region) |1890

|Malorusskaia etnografiia (Little Russian Ethnography) |Aleksandr Pypin |Russian Empire |1891, as Vol. 3 of his Istoriia russkoi etnografii (The History of Russian Ethnography)

|Sovremennaia malorusskaia etnografiia (Contemporary Little Russian Ethnography) |Mykola Sumtsov |Russian Empire |Vol.1, 1893; Vol. 2, 1897 |synthesis of Ukrainian ethnography |- |Etnohrafichnyi zbirnyk (Ethnographic Collection) |Ethnographic Commission of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) in Lemberg (including Ivan Franko, Volodymyr Hnatiuk, Stanislav Liudkevych) |mostly Galicia and Transcarpathia, Austro-Hungary |40 vols beginning in 1895 |folk songs, carols, proverbs, and other materials in the field of ethnography collected mostly in Galicia and Transcarpathia |- |Halyts’ko-rus’ki narodni prypovidky (Galician-Ruthenian Folk Proverbs) |Ivan Franko |Austro-Hungary |as part of the Etnohrafichnyi zbirnyk |six-volume edition of Ukrainian proverbs |- |Etnograficheskie materialy, sobrannye v Chernigovskoi i sosednikh s nei guberniiakh (Ethnographic Materials Collected in the Chernihiv and Neighboring Gubernias) |Borys Hrinchenko |Chernigov Gubernia (Polesia/Severia) and neighboring Gubernias, Russian Empire |3 vols, 1895–9

|Etnohrafichni materiialy z Uhors’koï Rusy (Ethnographic Materials from Hungarian Ruthenia) |Volodymyr Hnatiuk |Transcarpathia, Austro-Hungary |1897–1911 in vols 3, 4, 9, 25, 29, and 30 of the Etnohrafichnyi zbirnyk

|Razyskaniia v oblasti anekdoticheskoi literatury (Research in the Field of Anecdotal Literature, 1898) |Mykola Sumtsov |Russian Empire |1898

|Rozvidky pro ukraïns'ku narodnu slovesnist' i pys'menstvo (Studies of Ukrainian Folklore and Literature, 4 vols, 1899–1907) |Mykhailo Drahomanov | |1899-1907

|Materiialy do ukraïns’koï etnolohiï (Materials on Ukrainian Ethnology) |Ethnographic Commission of the NTSh in Lemberg |Austro-Hungary |1899-1916

|Iz ust naroda. Malorusskie rasskazy, skazki i proch.''

List of Ukrainian folklore collections

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