Yaryzhka or Orthography of Slobozhanshchyna is the name of the pre-revolutionary orthography used to write and print works in the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire. Yaryzhka included all the le
Front page of Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky's Kaidash's Family, published in 1887 in Kyiv; unlike the printed text, which is composed in yaryzhka according to publication rules of the Russian Empire, the author's signature addressed to Austrian subject Ivan Franko is written using the standard Ukrainian orthography