Olesya (#Russian: Олеся) is a novelette by #AlexanderKuprin written in late 1897 – early 1898 and serialized in #Kievlyanin newspaper from October 30 to November 17, 1898. Olesya, the most acclaimed piece of his #Polesye cycle, did much to build Kuprin's literary reputation and warranted his move to #SaintPetersburg. According to the Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, "Olesya is the most charming of Kuprin's rural tales. Though meant at first to be only part of the #Volhynia.