Abstract
This chapter gives voice to Ukraine by focusing on the Ukrainian writer and scholar Panteleimon Kulish's historical novel Mikhailo Charnyshenko, or Little Russia Eighty Years Ago published in Russian in 1843. The chapter shows that multiple Gothic tropes employed in the novel — from “medieval” ruins and towers to exotic demonic villains and supernatural phantoms — produce an intricate play of temporalities. Moreover, they create an ambivalent vision of the Ukrainian heroic past, as both an object of Romantic nostalgia and a dangerous period of chaos overcome by the country's incorporation into the Russian Empire. Kulish's extensive use of the Gothic mode, when analyzed closely, reveals his profound ambiguity about Ukraine's imperial present haunted by the ghosts of its autonomous heroic past.
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