Ukrainian writers on the Cracovian street : Polish-Ukrainian friendship and literary fascination in the late 1800s and in the beginning of the 1900s

The article presented the interaction between Ukrainian and Polish writers, who were living in Cracow at the turn ol the 20th centurv. Cracow in the late 19dl and early 20th century was a city in which resided a large group of Ukrainian poets, writers and artists, who constituted themselves as a group of the literary Moloda Muza. This artistic movement developed under the influence of the ideals of the Młoda Polska and personal contacts with Cracow artists (including friendship of Stanislaw Przvbvszewski with Wasyl Stefanyk). Many of the artists associated with the Mloda Muza were guests of the Ukrainian professor at the Jagiellonian University, Bohdan Lepki. Among the Ukrainian Impressionist artists who worked or stayed in Cracow at the beginning of the 2011' century one mav mention the novelist Wasvl Stefanvk (he studied medicine in Cracow). Stefanvk wrote short stories, which were translated into Polish, analyzed and popularized by Cracow’s writers, critics, scholars and publishers, his texts were published in "Życie", "Czas Krakowski", "Świat Słowiański". A special role is played by his contacts with Władysław Orkan, who explained him to his contemporary Ukrainian writers and released two particularly important collections - Młoda Ukraina (1908) and the Antologia współczesnych poetów ukraińskich (1910).