Oleksa Storozhenko

However, measures undertaken by the Imperial Russia's agencies enforcing the Valuev Circular (a legal decree reflecting persecution against the Ukrainian language) became the reason why Oleksa Storozhenko had to continue his writings in Russian.

Storozhenko's style of writing is marked by earthy Ukrainian language and picturesque representation of the folk proverbs, anecdotes, sayings and songs.

The leading topics of his works are: Ukrainians’ everyday life, customs, folklore and demonological believes, historical events, particularly kozaks and Zaporozhian Sich.

[2] 1858 – Rasskazy iz Krestyanskogo Byta Malorossiian (Stories from the Peasant Life of Little Russians).

Storozhenko's other titles include: Vchy linyvoho ne molotom a holodom (Teach the Lazy Man not by Hammer but by Hunger), Mezhyhorodskyi did (The Old Man from Mezhyhorod), Vusy (The Moustache), Holka (The Needle) and Matusyne Blahoslovennia (Mother's Blessing).