Г. Квітка-Основ'яненко "Маруся"

The story "Marusia" (1832) is based on a real-life conflict of social and domestic content: the prospect of a hard twenty-five-year soldier's service for the groom and the poor fate of a female soldier for the bride stands in the way of the lovers' marriage. Kvitka-Osnovianenko tries to ease this conflict by "finding" an unrealistically benevolent landlord who promised the hero of the story, Vasyl, to find him a replacement for his one- or two-year service in exchange for money during recruitment. While Vasyl was earning money, Marusia caught a cold and died. When Vasyl returns from his work and finds his beloved dead, he goes to a monastery and dies of grief. Thus, the plot of the story is a poeticised story of pure and faithful love between a village girl, Marusya, and a young man from the city's craftsmen, Vasyl; the ending of the plot is tragic.