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older ones watched with pleasure, Continued from Issue #3 CHRIST Is RIS£H participating as much as they could and never, ever, refusing to help. The From the newspaper MVostok" in 1935, we schoolhouse door was open to everyone, and have the following history of our people. The paper everyone felt free and easy there. was printed by the Greek Catholic Carpatho­ Russian Benevolent Assoc.' uLiberly': Out-ot-town Russian intellectuals also helped in these cultural matters. For The Great Moravian Kingdom and the example, engineer Sergei Durkot of Krynitsia Hungarians helped in making scenery and in the meetings at the reading room. Ma Emilia The Great Moravian Kingdom was Yanowitska held .cooking c~asses for the girls founded during the first quarter of the ninth and young hou~ewives. Dr. Romanowksi, century. Its capital was Velgrad; its notable then a medical student, conducted a choir princes, Moimir, Rostislav; and the famous during v~cation in 1934. The residents of SViatopblk, who united the Slavic tribes that Hanchowa put up guests who came for the dwelled between the Rivers Drava and Laba. gatherings or for holidays, such as teacher During his reign, the first Slavic alphabet Trokhanowksi and Dr. Hnatishak trom appeared, which enabled Carpathian Russia Krynitsia, or Fr. M. Soboliwski and his family to preserve its nationality to the present day. from Ustye Russke. It was during this time that P. Fetsitsa, one of the best of Lemkos About the middle of the ninth century, and a pupil of mine and my daughter's, completed his studies. the Moravian Prince Sviatopolk and Kotzel, Prince of Pannonia (aftelWards, Hungary) asked the Patriarch Constantinople to send So as not to become enmeshed with ot them teachers of the Christian religion. and also to make some money to help ~e~s: Patriarch Photius sent Cyrill and Methodius. indiViduals and tor social needs, people Methodilis received the Archbishopric of £) ..cpn!11I1--I!:1Ji!!1- P.f J1 morio!TJUln, !)'iJu fa!! in tlie itJJ!lb 1~lli;; Moravia and Pannonia. Saint Cyrill drew up 70Itr "0:&, tIS yOP' %iJ rO.>i: Pll Ilk: UlirdtUlfP rlJiJ·.iw./ulillll Continued on Page 2, Column 1 the Slavic alphabet and translated the Gospel from ",m'plum IIIW&.slro!!ill/l ,!i.dtli. :/olt IIle ,fie :I'iwowr 0/ into the Slavic tongue. fluQf7TJpl UJIl DIu! tlie JafrJl1liolt 0/ tlie 'J t.-1r!.l. Your Editor received the following Appeal The Hungarians, a tribe of Mongolian Continued from Issue #3, 2003 by the Lemko Assoc. in Poland for contributions to race, appeared beyond the Volga Steppes. assist in the cost of producing and filming the With the permission of Prince Sviatopolk, Translated below is the next installment of Action Vis/a tragedy. who gave them guides to lead them through another Lemko viI/age, Hanchowa, and its the whole Russian dominion, they traversed sUff"Ounding area. APPEAL the Russia of those days and entered Pannonia. How Hanchowa Developed Dear Editor, Under the leadership of Arpad, the Hungarians, in the year 885 crossed the Life in Hanchowa After the Consolidation. On behalf of the Board of Lemko Association in Poland, I ask you to publish in princedom of Kiev and in 899 appeared in Karpatska Rus our request- for financial Pannonia, a part of the Great Moravian When the consolidation was assistance to continue the production of a film Kingdom. After persistent fighting which completed in 1931, farming began to aDout the greatest tragedy inflicted on the lasted from '899 1hru 907, the Hungarians improve. With one good sized piece of land Lemko people, "Aksia Visla" in 1947. [the finally seized the eastern part of the Kingdom a farmer could think about improvement, forced deportation, without compensation, of taking away from the Carpathian Slavs their without all that useless running around that thousands of our people from their ancestral rich and cultivated land. had prevailed before. It was now possible for lands with, in many cases, less than 24 hours a man to t.ake a little more interest in notice]. Hungarian Conquest of Carpathian Russia community affairs, for which most Hanchowans were undeniably eager. In this At first Carpathian Russia, then quiet period of village life, the school also . With warm regards, belonging to the Princedom of Kiev, was gradually began to acquire a more social Andrei Kopcha, chief unmolested by the new Kingdom. Her capitol character. The school children gave many Lemko Assoc. Board • * * Uzhorod, lay under the rule of Prince performances, mostly based· on Kachkowski I, personally, am acquainted with Mr. Laboretz, the viceroy of Vladimir, Prince of Society booklets. Kopcha. He is a fine gentleman and experienced Kiev. Either gratitude or the fear of Kiev's great strength kept the Hungarians at peace. The older youths took an active part in theatrical producer and I'm sure he will turn out a They even fell under the higher culture of the social affairs. By 1930, they had already well thought out film. When completed, copies will Slavs. During the entire reign of the organized a theatrical company, which gave be made available to our readers. Contributions Hungarian King Stephen, (997 - 1038) many fine performances. They chose pieces can be sent to our address; P.O. Box 156, triendly relations were upheld with the Kiev that best reflected national and religious life, Allentown, NJ 08501-0156. The total amount will princes. King Andrew, who ruled from 1046 such as "A Shelter in the Carpathians" or "A be sent to the Board of Lemko Assoc. in Poland, - 1061, spent many years in Kiev, prior to his night in Bethlehem". Most of this was done in without any deductIon, and acknowledgments will ascension, and even married AnastaSia, the the winter time, but there also was some in be sent to donors by the Lemko Board in Poland. daughter of Grand Prince Jaroslav the the summer, because in addition to school Thank you. Ed. Wise. presentations there were gatherings at the Kachkowski reading room. The young people got a taste of this kind of culture, while the Continued on Page 3, Column 1 PAGE 2 CARPATHO-RUS FEB.~UARY 28, '2003

Nikifor "Krinitski - Epifan Drowniak Continued from Page 1, Column 2 both Russian and Polish, ·be. taken down and (Has come to the Museum in Zindranowa) replaced by Polish only. We waited a long time, first as began thinking about cooperatives. In respect In those 20 years after the collapse of directors of the Museum for a few years, and to this, the community sent three lads to the Austria, from 1919 to 1939, Lemkos had then as directors of the Museum Association. school on cooperatives in Lvov: Teodor managed to rebuild their farmsteads, to The Lemkivshchina Association in L 'wiw, and Fetsitsa, Seman Khutko, and Ivan Sokol. revive the Kachkowski reading rooms and later the board of Directors of the Lemko Later on, they sent Seman Khutko to high schools for their children, and to Union in Gor/ice, both promised to give our conductor school in Lvov, so they could have organize cooperatives. With their innate Museum a -Nikifor" [our famous folk artist]. their own music teacher. The cooperative intelligence, Lemkos rushed to embrace this But nothing came of those promises. A grew rapidly. My husband was cashier; he culture. Shall this edifice of cultural copper· bronze bust was donated to us, but knew financial matters because he had been development and the striving for a better offiCials of the Lemko Union diverted it to the manager of a milk plant in Zhdynia before tomorrow, disappear? The future will tell. Saints Peter & Paul Uniate church in Krinitsia. World War I. He was very glad to get advice And that's not a bad thing, because Nikifor on managing cooperative businesses from The Year-1939 often prayed in that church. So let the teacher Nikolai Yurkowski, and they spent communicants of that church look at it and many an hour talking about community remember him. matters. Yurkowski often helped us in putting When the War broke out, St. Batiuk, director of the school at Wysowa, became on theatrical plays, because he like that kind The Foundation For Research on of work. inspector of Lemko schools. Now "Ukrainian speech- became the language of instruction. Lemkivshchina in L'wiw helped us acquire plaster plaques of those great religious­ The 950th anniversary of the Although the War was going on, the front was far away, and here it seemed rather quiet. cultural activists in our history - W. Khiliak the Christening of Rus' was celebrated by putting writer, and Ivan Rusenko, that unmatched up a memorial with an image of st. Vladimir. poet, painter, and teacher. These figures That memorial is still standing today. A great As soon as the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, that same Ukrainian were carved by the late sculptor Wasil many people from Lemko villages attended Odrekhiwski of L'wiw. this celebration, as did many intellectuals from intelligentsia (a creation of Austrian politics, other places, for it showed the true feelings of the new game that began in 1891) raised its In the fall of this year, our Museum our Russian people. head in anticipation that this time they would achieve their -independence". They again had organized a small gathering of sculptors to which we invited the artist Bohdan '_Kowal I also want to note the relationship went to work as they did in the First World of Kalusha, who was born in the village of between Poles and Lemkos during this War. They seized the opportunity to do away Szeczawne-Kulaszne beyond Komancza. period. In the summer time, many working with anyone who would not go along with Bohdan took it upon himself to create a stone people would come to Wysowa for' relaxation them in their dirty treacherous activities. figure of Nikifor. Although the weather at that and to breathe the fresh mountain air, to There was terror in Lemkovina also, time was cold and rainy, Bohdan finished the enjoy the mountain scenery, and inCidentally organized by the Ukrainian Relief Committee to see some of the picturesque folklore of the and a gro~p of Sichowiki headed by job. So now the plaques of our historic Lemko$, to hear some of their musical speech Petrushka who were in the service of the religious-cultural activists have been joined by Germans. the figure of the world-renowned painter and their lovely songs. It seemed then that th some sort, of sympathy was developing Nikifor, and that on the 100 anniversary of between the two neighboring peoples. The first Hanchowans to be arrested, his birth. The Carpathian Foundation of on July 25, 1941, were my husband, a former Sanok helped cover the costs of the gathering Yet today it is all so different. Will this Talerhof inmate and now school director; our that brought forth Nildfor, and for that our keep on forever? Probably not. There will daughter Sasha, teacher at Kwiatona; Petro sincere gratitude and thankS. . It is too bad come a time when things will be better. It Fetsitsa, teacher at Radotsina; and Nadia that our Lemko organizations in Poland, and takes only patience. Rusiniak, teacher at Smerekowets. They e.Yeo.:., 5\tl.~ __ internalicma!_ ~FU.LO, ar:e, much were all taken' to Yaslo, to suffer hunger, cold, weaker in such matters. Why is that? We and other cruelties. They were released a don't know. School Instruction in the Last Few Years few months later, with orders that they accept Before the 1939 War. positions in some other villages. There is one othersuch painful incident or subject. Three years ago, on the "Lemko In all the schools of Lemkovina A few months after that, on November Page" of the NS, the then head of the Lemko Russian had formerly been the language of 21, the Germans picked up all the students at Union in Gorlice, Olko Masley, announced instruction, while Polish was just another the Gorlice. business school. Among them that the President of the Republic of Poland, subject. In the last few years before the War, was my son Rodion (12 years old), who at A. Kwasniewski, had made a donation of however, Polish became the language of that time was living at the Russian Bursa 3,000 zloty to the Zindranowa Museum. instruction and Russian was a subject. The [boarding school] in Gorlice. Professor Some people might think that we got that school library became mostly a collection of Maksimowich, director of the Bursa, money and kept it quiet, because we have Polish authors, such as Senkewich informed me of this right away. I went to never explainEtd how this money was used. Mitskewich, Krashevski, Konopnitska. Th~ Gorlice and then to Cracow, where I found There really Was nothing to explain, -because Hanchowa school got about 150 copies of those children in a detention camp. By we never received any of that 3,000. We still such books, as a reward for keeping an means of bribes, I managed to get my boy out have no clue as to what happened to that exemplary library. of their claws. money, where it went, who took it, or whether ·it really was intended for our Museum. From time to time, some of the young To be Continued folks, chiefly girls, would come to the _ We are asking the new Board of teacher's room in the schoolhouse, and we Directors of the Lemko Union to reply and by: Anna Vislotska would read Naumovich, whose works were in explain this matter. Translated by Dimitri Gallik tune with rural thinking. Tales of the times Translated by Dimitri Gallik when ignorance and drunkenness were predominant, along with the associated Fedor Goch poverty, roused those young people to Exgen Dziadosh compare those times with ours. Somehow, some evil person, jealous of the activity in the school, reported to the School Council in Gor/ice that the teacher had set up a Kachkowski reading room in the • schoolhouse, and we got a note from Gorlice, dated July 8, 1939.

"The management of the school in Hanchowa will determine by whom, when, and on whose authority, the teacher's room has been converted to a Kachkowski reading room. ~ Signed: "Inspector of Schools-­ Gunia~

in the summer of 1939, just before the War began, a punitive military commission came through Hanchowa and ordered that the inscriptions on the school and cooperative buildings, which were written in Nikifor-Epifan Drowniak has joined W. Khaliak and I. Rusenko PAGE 3 CARPATHO-RUS FEBRUARY 28, 2003

Continued from Page 1, Column 3 of Kiev. One of these refugees was the banished Prince Theodore Koriatovich, who custard consistency. Do not allow to boil, or it may curdle. stands as a famous historical character in The first Hungarian attack upon Remove from heat and stir in candied Carpathian Russia. Prince Theodore settled Carpathian Russia was made un~er King fruits, almond extract and vanilla sugar. Set in Hungary in 1338 and received from King Coloman in 1099. The onslaught failed. The pan in a large bowl filled with ice ~ubes Car1 I the right to rule the Mukachevsky Hungarians were defeated by a Russian covered with 2 inches of water. Stir the country, which extended from the River Uzh PrinCe, Vladimir Rostislavich. custard constantly with a metal spoon until to the Gusta in Maramoros. His name is completely cooled, then mix gently but connected with many institutions and even The greatness of the Kiev Princes, thoroughly into cheese mixture. with the very spreading of the Russians Set desired mold in a shallow soup under whose rul.e Carpathian Russia then lay, beyond the Carpathians. In reality this plate and line with double thickness of was known to the whole civilizea wona. expansion and also the founding of the cheesecloth cut long enough to hang at least Eleventh and twelfth century records describe Mukachevsky monastery of Saint Nicholas on 2 inches over and around top of mold. Pour the Russian rulers as speakers of forcing Mount Chernichei took place before the in ' batter and fold ends of cheesecloth lightly languages, as ugreat readers and collectors of coming of Prince Koriatovich, as has been over top. Set a weight directly on top of books· as "builders of schools to teach Greek upheld by later tradition. and L~tin', Adam of Bremen, a 11th century cheesecloth - and chill 24 hours. historian, calls Kiev the rival of We have already shown the desire of To garnish, unmold by unwrapping Constantinople. Titmar of Merceburg, a writer . Hungarian rulers to unify the people under cheesecloth from the top, and inverting a flat of the same century describes it as a very them, to Magyarize them. Carpathian Russia serving plate on. top of the mold, grasp the large and well fortified city, with 400 churches showed strong opposition to this and sought two firmly together and tum over. The paska and eight markets. Slav annals state that 300 refuge in her religion. The church schools will 'slide out easily. Gently peel off you like with of its churches were burned in the fire of became the guardians of her language and cheesecloth and decorate as candied fruits. 1071. culture. For several centuries' to the present Paska may be served alone or spread day they have continued to be the protectors in a thick iayer on a slice of kulich. Once At that time Russia was recognized as of Russian nationaUsm, Russian culture, unmolded, it may be safely refrigerated one one of the cultured Kingdoms of Europe. It language and spirit. was the age of Jarosla" the Wise; the age week and freezes successfully. when foreigners marveled at the culture and At that· time German Catholics began the rich commerce of Kiev. But after the to settle upon Carpathian Russian soil. The ****** ••••••••- ••••••_*.*** ••***.*** ••••••• * •• * ••*** •• * death of Jaroslav Vladimirovich, quarrels government of King Bella IV, seized lands arose among his sons, which brought matters to such a pass that in 1196 Carpathian from many of the Russians of the OrthOdox Kulich (Easter bread) Russia was seized by the Hungarians. faith, and gave them to the new German settlers and to Italian Princes and Counts. 1 1/4 cups scalded milk The territory,' that once had been people.d 3/4 cup butter Under the Hungarian Rule purely by Russian~, was now full of Catholic 1% cups sugar monasteries of foreign religion and langu!l~e, 8 cups 'sifted flour The Hungarian govemment made a such as the Minority Monastery of Saint 2 tsp salt separate province of Carpathian Russia, Krizha in Sbarish, the Cherveni cloister ~n 1 cake fresh yeast under the name "Ducatus Russorum·. The Spisha and the Franciscan monastery In 1 pkg dry yeast province was then divided into domains and Gumeno. these to the end of the 17th century enjoyed 1/8 cup warm water great freedom in their internal and judicial The people had only strength enou~h 2 jiggers whiskey affairs. But thereafter Hungarian Kings to preserve their culture but not to develo~ It, 2 tsp vanilla extract for those of higher (ank had been Ma~yanzed decided to unify the population - Magya~ze. it. 1 grated lemon rind and had proven false to their own nation. As 1 tsp butter flavoring And so, Carpathian Russia being for instance the Tarnotsky and the Tiss families and many others who accepted 1 tsp almond extract entirely cut off from the rest of Russia, began 70r8 crushed cardamom seeds to live her own life. She no longer Magyarism for fear of the confiscation of their lands. 1 cup chopped citrus fruit, optional participated in the quarrels of the Slavs. For 1 cup chopped nuts, optional several centuries her territory was the 4 eggs, separated stumbling block and the cause of many feuds To be Continued By Dr. V. Nedzelnitsky between the Slavs Kingdom and Hungary. Add butter and sugar to scalded milk. When the Hungarian Kings were strong, they Stir until butter melts and let cool. Add salt to crossed the Carpathian ridge in an effort to sifted flour. seize Galician lands - but when their power The Cooking Corner Dissolve both yeasts in 1/8 cup warm weakened they put every effort in bringing the water. Set aside. Beat egg yolks and stir in land beyond the Carpathians under Galician whiskey, vanilla, almond and butter flaVOring, Easter Paska rule. lemon and cardamom, in large bowl, combine all liquids. . Add two cups flour gradually to the 1 Ib farmers cheese It is important to know that Carpathian liquids and beat for 2 minutes. Fold in beaten 1/4 Ib salted butter Russia was divided into domains with egg whiteS. Add the remaining flour to the disregard to the nationalities within each 1/4 Ib sweet butter division. Some parts were united with Slav 1/4 cup chopped candied fruits and mixture until blended. rinds Knead the dough until smooth and territory, others with Magyar, still others with 1 tsp vanilla extract elastic. Add fruit and nuts into the dough Rumania, which broke the land, that was 1 cup heavy cream evenly. If too sticky, add a little more flour. already ruined by geographic and 4 egg yolks Place dough in a greased bowl, turning once to colonizational conditions, completely to 1 cup sugar grease surface. Cover and let rise in a warm pieces. On top of it all, she served as the 1 bottle cap full almond extract place for about 4 to 4 % hours. battle front for the war of the Hungarians 1 tsp vanilla sugar (concentrated Divide dough evenly into 3 balls. Place against the Tartars, so that in 1241 the tartars form of vanilla) each ball into a greased and line 3 pound can. invasion made a co~plete devastation of the To line the can, use heavy brown paper, following territories - Spishsky, Sharisky, Combine candied fruits with vanilla grease and bring paper about 4. inches abo~e Abouisky, Zemplinsky, Bereczsky and extract in a small bowl, stir together can, Let dough rise until 3 or 4 times larger In Maramorshsky. thoroughly and let mixture. rest 1 hour. With size, takes about 4 hours. th the back of a wooden spoon, rub cheese Bake in 350 degree oven for 10 During the 12th and 13 centuries, the through a fine sieve set over a large bowl. minutes. Tum oven to 325 degrees and baJ(e inhabitants of the kingdom of Kiev sought Beat the softened butter thoroughly into for 1 hour or until golden brown. Remove refuge in Carpathian Russia. Kiev suffered cheese. Set aside. Kulich from oven. Let stand for 10 minutes in from disastrous wars with nomads from the Over high heat, heat the cream in a cans. Remove. Frost top. steppes, from political strife within the small saucepan until small bubbles form Confectioners' icing kingdom itself, and from dissensio,n among its around the edge of pan. Set aside. In a 1 cup . sifted confectioners' sugar princes. The inhabitants around the Dnieper mixing bowl, beat eggs and sugar together enough milk for pasty sought new lands, . seeking shelter from the with a whisk or rotary or electric beater until consistency invasion of wild tribes, the anger of the rulers they thicken enough to run sluggishly off the 1/4 tsp vanilla extract and menace of the Tartars. Most frequently beater when lifted out of bowl. Still beating, Mix all ingredients until smooth. the refugees fled to the Carpathian slowly add ' hot cream In a thin stream, then Mountains. A large number settled in return mixture to pan. Stirring constantly, Uhorskaya Russia, bringing with them culture cook over low heat until mixture thickens to PAGE 4 CARPATHO-RUS FEBRUARY 28, 2003

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