Citations:Malo-Russian

English citations of Malorosian, Malo-Rossia, Malorossian, Malo-Russia, and Malo-Russian

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• 1794, Chantreau, Philosophical, Political, and Literary Travels in Russia, Perth: R. Morison and Son, p 305:

  It is the Malorosians, a cast of laborious people, who live among the Cossacs [sic], and by their indolence.

• 1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire, v 3, London: Longman and Rees, p 345:

  The parts in which the culture of the vine is at present carried on are the governments of Caucasus, Taurida, Ekatarinoslaf, and Vosnesensk, and the country of the Don-kozaks; in the malo-russian governments, and some other provinces of the southern regions, the vine-stock, indeed, here and there succeeds, but the produce of it is here generally so small, as not to merit particular notice.

• 1807, The Literary Panorama, v 2, London: C. Taylor:

  [p 129, “Description of the Ukraine”] The origin of the Ukrainians, commonly denominated Cozaks, and lately distinguished by the name of Malo-Russians (Little Russians, inhabitants of Little Russia; the word Malo-Russia, or Little Russia, being often used as a substitute for that of Ukraine) is lost, like that of many other nations, in the confusion and ignorance of former ages; though, unquestionably, they are a race of the ancient Sclavonians, and not, as some have imagined, a tribe of the Scythians, whose real descendants appear to be the Calmuks, excelling now, as ever, in the use of bows and arrows; nor is their dexterity in these weapons less wonderful than what is related of the ancient Scythians.

  [p 129, note] *This statement of the extent and population refers only to the usual division of Little Russia into the three governments of Kiow, Chernigou, and Nowgorod Sieversky: on this scale the country extends from 50 to 53 degrees of north latitude; but if the government of Charkow and a considerable part of that of Ekaterinoslaw or Novorosiysk should be added to it, they being chiefly peopled with Little Russians or Malo-Russians, the extent and population would be proportionately greater.

  [p 377, “Letters on the Ukraine, by a Russian Gentleman”] The Cozaks are unquestionably a branch of the Russians, and are divided into two grand bodies: the Don Cozaks, the Malo-Russian Cozaks, from which all other have afterwards taken their origin.

  [p 388] Thus the Malo-Russians, Ukranians [sic], and Zaporogtzi are one and the same people; except that the latter, from concurring circumstances, deviated from the rest in their mode of living so much, that they appeared to form a distinct nation; and may claim a particular description.

• 1836, “On the Varieties of Climate and Productions in the Russian Empire,” in Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, v 6, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, p 506:

  “With respect to the population of this region, it may be decided into the old established Russian inhabitants, who have from time immemorial dwelt in the western governments of Kiev, Podolksy, Malo-Rossia, &c, and those that have settled at a later period in Kursk, Saratoff, &c.

• 1844, Johann Georg Kohl, Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kharkoff, Riga, Odessa, the German Provinces on the Baltic, the Steppes, the Crimea, and the Interior of the Empire, London: Chapman and Hall:

  [p 406] The main body of the population is, however, everywhere Malorossian.

  [p 527] The Malorossians, indeed, are seldom fond of a town life, and above all things they entertain a great aversion to St. Petersburg.

• 1850, Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations, pp 50–51:

  [p 50] 2. The Malo-Russian, the language of the south of Russia, especially towards the east.

  [p 51] Essentially the same with the Malo-Russian is the idiom of the Russniaks in Red Russia, in the eastern part of Galicia and the north-eastern districts of Hungary; and a few variations which occur in it have not yet been sufficiently investigated.

  [p 57] The Malo-Russian also, or Ruthenian dialect, was, by the influence of the Polish language, cultivated before the pure Russian; which last began, only in the latter half of the seven