Русины в произведениях Дюлы Круди

After World War I Hungary was passing through stormy years of partition of the country and proletarian revolution. The Hungarian society did not know enough about the non-Hungarian compatriot nations, though some of the Hungarian writers years before did their best to get over the problem. When in 1918 the National Law No X was passed, on the strength of which the Rusyns of the People's Republic of Hungary were given autonomy, Gyula Krúdy wrote his book about the Rusyns to let the Hungarian society knew who as a matter of fact those Rusyns were. He intended to publish this book in 1919 in Ungvár, but the city was seized by the French foreign legion and his plan failed to become a reality. That time the book was only published in Budapest. Nowadays it has been published in Uzhgorod (the former Ungvár) in Rusyn and gives the reader an essential survey of Rusyn temper, traditions, circumstances of life and place of abode at that time. The author's vivid and cordial description agrees with a lot of other descriptions as well as widespread stereotypic images of the Subcarpathian Rusyns. It also presents the author's idea of the Russians and Ukrainians