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The motto of the book is the words of J. Kollar: «It is not when the eyes are sad, but when the hands are divided that hope blossoms». With its turn to the vernacular and the spelling introduced by its compilers, Rusalka Dnistrova had a great influence on the Ukrainian national revival and the development of Ukrainian literature in Galicia. According to Ivan Franko, the collection "was a revolutionary phenomenon in its time."