不知道为什么,我从童年时代就喜欢“乌克兰”这个名称。20世纪30年代,我在哈尔滨教会学校读书时,给我最早最深的印象可能是果戈理的《狄康卡近乡夜话》、《米尔格罗德》这些小说。他把乌克兰的风土人情描写的淋漓尽致,那么迷人、那么靓丽,使我常常陷入对乌克兰的幻想当中。19世纪俄罗斯画家们描绘乌克兰风景的作品也一直不能让我忘却,特别是克拉姆斯科伊的《五月之夜》(又名《水仙女》)、库因吉的 I do not know why I like the name “Ukraine” from my childhood. In the 1930s, the earliest and deepest impression I ever received when I was studying at a church school in Harbin might be Gogol’s novels of “Decona Hometown Milwaukee and Milogood”. He described the customs and practices of Ukraine vividly, so charming, so beautiful, so I often caught in the illusion of Ukraine. The nineteenth-century Russian painters portraying works of the Ukrainian landscape have also not let me forget, especially Kramskoy’s “May Night” (aka “Narcissus”),