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Kobzar (book)
''Kobzar'' (Ukrainian: Кобзар, "The bard"), is a book of poems by Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, first published by him in 1840 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Taras Shevchenko was nicknamed ''The Kobzar'' after the publishing of this book. From that time on this title has been applied to Shevchenko's poetry in general and acquired a symbolic meaning of the Ukrainian national and literary revival. The first publication consisted of eight poems: "Думи мої, думи мої, лихо мені з вами" (''My thoughts, my thoughts, you are my doom''), "Перебендя" ( Perebendya), "Катерина" (''Kateryna''), "Тополя" (''Poplar tree''), "Думка" (''Thought''), "Нащо мені чорні брови" (''Why should I have Black Eyebrows''), "До Основ'яненка" (''To Osnovyanenko''), "Іван Підкова" (''Ivan Pidkova''), and "Тарасова ніч" (''Taras's night''). There were three editions of the ''Kobzar'' du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south; it covers an area of , with a population of almost 84 million within its 16 constituent states. Germany borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The nation's capital and most populous city is Berlin and its financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Various Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical antiquity. A region named Germania was documented before AD 100. In 962, the Kingdom of Germany formed the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ukrainian-language Writers
This is a list of authors who have written works of prose and poetry in the Ukrainian language. A *Nikolai Amosov (1913–2002), novelist, essayist, and medical writer * Emma Andijewska (born 1931), novelist, poet, and short story writer * Nadija Hordijenko Andrianova (1921–1998), journalist, translator, and biographer * Sofia Andrukhovych (born 1982), novelist, translator, and editor * Yuri Andrukhovych (born 1960), novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, and translator * Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937), poet, translator, and editor B *Ivan Bahrianyi (1906–1963), poet, novelist, and essayist * Mykola Bakay (1931–1998), poet, and songwriter * Vasyl Barka (1908–2003), poet, writer, literary critic, and translator * Volodymyr Ivanovych Barvinok (1879–1943), historian, theologian, and bibliographer *Mykola Bazhan (1904–1983), poet, editor, and translator * Natalia Belchenko (born 1973), poet and translator * Nina Bichuya (born 1937), novelist, and children's wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ukrainian-language Poets
The following is a list of Ukrainian-language poets. 18th century *Hryhori Skovoroda – Kharkiv Oblast 19th century *Taras Shevchenko – Zvenyhorodsky Raion, Cherkasy Oblast *Ivan Franko – Yavorivskyi Raion, Lviv Oblast * Leonid Hlibov – Khorolskyi Raion, Poltava Oblast *Yevhen Hrebinka – Ubizhyshche, (today – Marianivka), Poltava Governorate * Levko Borovykovsky – Myliushky, Poltava Governorate *Ivan Vahylevych – village of Yasen (today in Kalush Raion), Stanisławów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria *Markiyan Shashkevych – Pidlyssia, Złoczów Powiat, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria *Panteleimon Kulish – Voronizh (now in Sumy Oblast) *Yuriy Fedkovych – Putyla (now in Chernivtsi Oblast) *Pavlo Chubynsky – village Hora, Pereyaslav county, Poltava Governorate 20th century *Mykola Khvylovy – Trostianets, Sumy Oblast *Olena Teliha – Moscow, Russia *Pavlo Tychyna – Chernihiv Oblast * Lesya Ukrainka – Zviahel, Zhytomyr Ob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Izbornyk
Izbornyk is an internet-library project of the old Ukrainian literature also known as "History of Ukraine 9-18th centuries. Primary sources and interpretation". It functions since the 21st of August 2001. The project is a collection of major works on history of Ruthenia, Cossack Hetmanate and Ukraine. The project covers the following main subjects: Chronicles, Linguistics, History, Old Ukrainian Literature, Taras Shevchenko, Political Science, Literary Studies, Grammar and lexicons, Historical maps. 2016, according to website visit statistics, there are from 200,000 to 500,000 visitors per month. Idea A library is a collection of ebooks and texts, combined with a declared theme and a single idea. The idea behind the project is to strive to collect as many works of Ukrainian writing as possible, not simply as a random collection of texts from different times and authors, but against the backdrop of a holistic cultural and historical process, which would make it clear the unity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kraków
Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 and has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life. Cited as one of Europe's most beautiful cities, its Old Town with Wawel Royal Castle was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978, one of the first 12 sites granted the status. The city has grown from a Stone Age settlement to Poland's second-most-important city. It began as a hamlet on Wawel Hill and was reported by Ibrahim Ibn Yakoub, a merchant from Cordoba, as a busy trading centre of Central Europe in 985. With the establishment of new universities and cultural venues at the emergence of the Second Polish Republic in 1918 and throughout the 20th century, Kraków reaffirmed its role as a major national academic and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bohdan Lepky
Bohdan Teodor Nestor Lepky, ( uk, Богдан Теодор Нестор Лепкий, November 9, 1872, Krehulets, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary – July 21, 1941, Kraków, General Government, Nazi Germany) was a Ukrainian writer, poet, scholar, public figure, and artist. He was born on November 9, 1872, in the village of Zhukiv, in the same house where the Polish insurgent Bogdan Jarocki once lived. Education At the age of six Bohdan was sent to a "normal school" in Berezhany, starting in second grade, and later attended grammar school there. Lepky would recall that most of the young Ukrainian and Polish students were noted for their ethnic tolerance, mutual respect, and openness, as well as active participation in choirs, stage productions, and concerts with both Polish and Ukrainian repertoire. After completing the grammar school in 1891, Lepky was admitted to the Academy of Arts in Vienna, but soon realized that literature was his true vocation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, a=ru-Pushkin.ogg; ) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poetShort biography from University of Virginia . Retrieved 24 November 2006.Allan Rei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haydamaky (poem)
Haidamaki ( ua, Гайдамаки) is an epic poem by Taras Shevchenko about the Koliivshchyna led by Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Gonta. The poem was written in about 1839–1841 and first published in full as a separate book in Saint Petersburg in 1841. It is dedicated to his friend, artist, Vasyl Ivanovych Hryhorovych. See also * Izbornyk * Koliivshchyna (film) * List of Ukrainian-language poets * List of Ukrainian-language writers * Ukrainian literature Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian literature mostly developed under foreign domination over Ukrainian territories, foreign rule by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poland, the Russian Empire, t ... References External linksTranslation by John Weir Ukrainian literature Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian-language books 1841 poems {{Ukraine-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okhrim Sudomora
Okhrim Ivanovych Sudomora ( Ukrainian: Судомора Охрім Іванович; pseudonyms: O.S., O. Sud., Did Okhr.) (19 March 1889, Boryspil - 13 October 1968, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, and poster artist. Biography He was born on 19 March 1889 in the city of Boryspil (now Kyiv region, Ukraine). From 1904 to 1907, he studied at the Icon Painting and Art School of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra undeIvan Izhakevych and from 1907 to 1913 at th where he also taught. From 1913, he worked in book design, illustrated children's books for Kyiv (later Vienna and Prague) publishing houses "Chas" (Time),Dniprosoiuz, (Bell),; from 1913 to 1914 he designed the magazine (Aura) and numerous children's fairy tales (among them, The War of Mushrooms and Beetles, 1919). From 1924, he worked for the Kharkiv and Kyiv publishing houses "Shliakh Osvity" (Path of Education), (Ukrainian Co-operative Publishing Association), "Radianske Selo" (1924-1934, Soviet Village)), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Literature
Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language. Ukrainian literature mostly developed under foreign domination over Ukrainian territories, foreign rule by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Poland, the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Romania, the Austria-Hungary Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, enriched Ukrainian culture and language, and Ukrainian authors were able to produce a rich literary heritage. Ukrainian literature’s precursor: writings in Old-Church Slavonic and Latin in Ukraine Prior to the establishment of Ukrainian literature in 1700s, many authors from Ukraine wrote in "scholarly" languages of middle-ages – Latin and Old-Church Slavonic. Among prominent authors from Ukraine who wrote in Latin and Old-Church Slavonic are Hryhorii Skovoroda, Yuriy Drohobych, Stanislav Orikhovsky-Roxolan, Feofan Prokopovych, , and others. The beginnings of oral Ukrainian literature During this period of history there was a higher number of elementa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
