. - 170 p.; 23x16 cm. In semi-leather binding of the period. Publisher's ornamented cover is preserved. In good condition. Scuffs, soiling of the binding, tear and loss of a fragment of the front cover along the spine, loss of a free sheet of the front cover, bibl. stamps and numbers, stamps of the partnership "Prosvita" on the front cover, title page and other pages, inscriptions on the front cover, small stains, foxing. Gift inscription of 1970 and paper exlibris O. Ovcharenko on the front endpaper. Platon Akimovich Lukashevich (c. 1809-1887) - Russian ethnographer and amateur linguist, author of marginal theories. He studied at the Nizhyn gymnasium, where he was a comrade of N.V. Gogol, then at the Odessa Richelievsky Lyceum, from which he successfully graduated in 1828. In 1836 Lukashevich published a collection of "Malorussian and Chervon-Russian songs", in the preface of which he noted the decline of Malorussian song and "its replacement by the song of Great Russian or even soldier songs". The collection received a generally favourable evaluation in the press.