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The Institute Girl — Marko Vovchok

The Institute Girl (1860) is a novella by Marko Vovchok exposing serfdom through the story of a peasant girl and her mistress, an "institute girl." A classic of 19th-century Ukrainian literature.

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The Institute Girl is one of Marko Vovchok's most famous works. The novella is structured as a peasant woman's account of her mistress's cruelty — a woman educated at an institute for noble girls. The contrast between "enlightenment" and inhumanity is the central motif.

The work played a notable role in anti-serfdom literature and became part of the school canon of Ukrainian literature.

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AuthorMarko Vovchok

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