Rus'ka pys'mennist'

Rus'ka pys'mennist' (Руська письменність; Ruthenian Writing). A book series of Ukrainian literary classics published in Lviv in the years 1904–28. It was established and edited by Yuliian Romanchuk, who was succeeded in 1920 by Vasyl Lukych (Volodymyr L. Levytsky) and then by Mykhailo Vozniak. The book series was renamed Ukraïns'ke pys'menstvo after the First World War. Twenty-eight volumes of works were published (23 of them by Romanchuk), including works of authors such as Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Taras Shevchenko, Panteleimon Kulish, Sydir Vorobkevych, Stepan Rudansky, and Yurii Fedkovych.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]