Among the Steppes

Panas Rudchenko, better known by his literary pseudonym Panas Myrny, secured his place in Ukrainian literature forever with the novel Do Oxen Low When Mangers Are Full? Yet it would be unfair to reduce his творча career to this single work alone. Myrny’s talent was recognized and highly valued by such outstanding contemporaries as Ivan Franko and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky, while the themes he explored remain relevant to this day and continue to resonate in the collective memory of the people.

This book brings together the author’s completed short stories and novellas — works imbued with the spirit of the nineteenth century, the vast Ukrainian steppes, and the writer’s boundless love for his native land.