<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss
  version="2.0"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
  xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
  xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
  xmlns:webfeeds="http://webfeeds.org/rss/1.0"
  xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"
  >

  <channel>

    <title>Books4you - Maroussia: A Maid of Ukraine Chapters</title>
    <description><![CDATA[Recent chapters of Maroussia: A Maid of Ukraine.]]></description>
    <language>en-US</language>
    <atom:link href="https://en.books4.you/feed/rss-chapters?story_id=190" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/</link>
    <lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:33:34 +0000</lastBuildDate>
    <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
    <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>

          <webfeeds:cover image="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />
    
    
    
    <category>Historical Fiction</category><category>Ukraine</category>
              <item>
            <title>22. Gloria Victis</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/22-gloria-victis/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=238</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[All this took place a long, long time ago. After a hundred, two hundred years perhaps, this legend remains. And now, on the top of an artificial hill, made by the hand of man, the largest of all those of the same kind to be found in Ukraine, can be seen a large cross of red granite. On this cross, the patient point of…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>21. The Read Handkerchief</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/21-the-read-handkerchief/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=236</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Maroussia bent down to hear the sound of Tchetchevik’s footsteps as long as possible. If her ears could hear him, even though her eyes were not able to follow him, she would be less anxious. As long as she could hear him, she felt as if he was still there. But soon all crackling of branches, all rustling of leaves ceased, Maroussia let her…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>20. Last Wreaths</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/20-last-wreaths/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=233</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Everything had been unfortunate and disastrous. “Have we much farther to go?” asked Maroussia. “Are you very tired, my child?” said Tchetchevik. “No, I am not tired, but I would like to know if we have much farther to go.” “Happily, no. Do you see that forest on our right? Well then, it is there that we are going to rest. But you are…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>19. The Happy Year</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/19-the-happy-year/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=231</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[For more than a year it seemed as if Ukraine was going to gain her independence. The whole country had arisen like one man. The invaders had disappeared, surprised by a movement so sudden, so general and spontaneous. Each Ukrainian had retaken, reconquered his field, his cottage, his farm or his house. Better still, each one had once more been able to gather in…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>18. Do Not Play With Daggers</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/18-do-not-play-with-daggers/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=229</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[The services were over. The Ataman had returned to his palace. The heat was oppressive, the sun blinding with its light. The sky was a great vault of blue. Nevertheless, some black clouds, coming from the west, could be seen on the horizon. “We shall have a great storm this afternoon,” said the Ataman. He was standing on a terrace which surrounded the court…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>17. At Gadiatch</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/17-at-gadiatch/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=226</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[The third day after they left the Dnieper, as we told in the preceding chapter, was Sunday, and the great bells of the city of Gadiatch, the residence of the Ataman protected by his Majesty the Tsar of Russia, were ringing a full peal, inviting the faithful to matins. It was scarcely day, and the city of Gadiatch, with its narrow, winding streets, its…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>16. On the Water</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/16-on-the-water/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=224</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[When they were in the middle of the river, “What news from the other Ataman?” Tchetchevik asked Knich. “Everything will be better when you have been there,” answered the farmer. “Fortune helps fools, God helps only the wise. They are roasting chickens, preparing geese and feasting. Briefly, there are too many strangers, too much luxury, and too great expense. They cannot make out the…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>15. The Meeting of Friends</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/15-the-meeting-of-friends/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=222</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Two weeks after the interview of Tchetchevik with the great Ataman, on a beautiful tranquil evening, the old singer with his Antigone was slowly approaching a village which had been destroyed by fire. Their journey was not a pleasure trip. It was evident that they had not allowed themselves to take necessary rest; their large eyes shone with a feverish fire, their faces were…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>14. The Object—And Afterwards</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/14-the-object-and-afterwards/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=219</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Maroussia rested as one rests on the sharp edge of a perpendicular rock whose base plunges into the sea; one sleeps, but at the same time, one feels that an abyss is nigh and hears its threatening sound. One dreams of many things, but has the vague consciousness that one may disappear in this vast ocean like a drop of water. Sometimes a smile…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
                    <item>
            <title>13. They Approach Tchigurine</title>
            <link>https://en.books4.you/story/190/13-they-approach-tchigurine/</link>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
            <dc:creator>Vovchok, Marko</dc:creator>
            <guid isPermaLink="false">https://en.books4.you/?post_type=fcn_chapter&#038;p=216</guid>
            <description><![CDATA[Maroussia and her friend walked a good part of the night without speaking to one another. From time to time Tchetchevik stopped and offered to carry the child. “I am not tired,” she always said. The hours to Maroussia seemed to fly away like swift birds. Her heart was filled with enthusiasm. Her good friend was well satisfied. He had learned many things during…]]></description>
            <media:thumbnail url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg" />

                          <webfeeds:featuredImage
                url="https://en.books4.you/wp-content/uploads/maroussia-kindle-cover.jpg"
                width="1600"
                height="2560"
              />
            
                      </item>
          
  </channel>

</rss>
