Marusia Bohuslavka was a legendary heroine who lived in Ukraine in the 16th or 17th century.
[1] It was first recorded in the first half of the 1850s from the kobzar Ryhorenko from the village of Krasnokutsk, printed in Notes on Southern Rus.
Taras Shevchenko reprinted it in his primer, Mykhailo Starytskyi wrote the drama "Marusia Boguslavka" based on this folk story; Ukrainian Soviet composer Anatoly Svechnikov wrote the ballet "Marusya Boguslavka".
[2] Marusya was kidnapped during the Crimean slave trade and sold into a Turkish harem.
The duma tells how she earned the trust of her husband and gained access to the keys of the palace, including the prison.