Pavlo Chubynskyi
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Pavlo Platonovych Chubynskyi ( uk, Павло Платонович Чубинський; 1839 – January 26, 1884) was a
Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...
poet and ethnographer whose poem ''Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy ni slava, ni volia…'' (The Glory And The Freedom Of Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished) was set to music and adapted as the
Ukrainian national anthem "" ( uk, Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля, , lit=The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished), also known by its official title of "State Anthem of Ukraine" (, ') or by its shortened form "" (, ), is the ...
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Birthplace

Chubynskyi was born in the Chubynskyi's estate that was located just outside village Hora, Pereiaslav county, Poltava Governorate. Today the place is known as a separate village
Chubynske Chubynske ( uk, Чубинське) is a selo located in Boryspil Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It is the birthplace of Pavlo Chubynsky in honour of whom the village was renamed in 1992 (until then, Nova Oleksandrivka, ''Нова Олексан ...
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Boryspil Raion Boryspil Raion ( uk, Бориспільський район, translit.: ''Boryspil's'kyi raion'') is an administrative raion (district) in east-central Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Boryspil. Population: . On ...
that is located midway between Kyiv and Boryspil International Airport in the Kyiv Oblast.


Career


Ukrainian national anthem

In 1863 the Ukrainian nationalist journal based in Lviv, ''Meta'' (The Goal), published ''Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy ni slava, ni volia'' (The Glory And The Freedom Of Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished) but mistakenly ascribed it to Taras Shevchenko. In the same year it was set to music by the Galician composer
Mykhailo Verbytsky Mykhailo Mykhailovych Verbytsky ( uk, Михайло Михайлович Вербицький; March 4, 1815 – December 7, 1870) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and composer. He is considered to be one of the first professional Ukrai ...
(1815–1870), first for solo and later choral performance. This song was disseminated throughout Ukraine as a rallying point for nationalist sentiments, leading Pavlo Chubynskyi to be seen as "negatively influencing peasants' minds" by the Russian Imperial government. They sought to neutralize his influence with assignments that isolated him, first to northern and cold Russian province Arkhangelsk. When his work in that region was recognized internationally by his peers, Chubynskyi was sent to Saint Petersburg to work in the Transport Ministry as a low-level official. He became paralyzed in 1880 and died four years later.Kharchenko, Serhiy
Anthem Passions.
''Ukraine Observer'' Issue 219


Legacy

In 1917 the song with his lyrics was officially adopted as the national anthem of Ukraine. In 2003, the president of Ukraine modified its lyrics.


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Further reading

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chubynskyi, Paul 1839 births 1884 deaths People from Boryspil Raion Ukrainian nobility Poets from the Russian Empire Ethnographers from the Russian Empire Jurists from the Russian Empire Ukrainian male poets Ukrainian jurists National anthem writers Ukrainian ethnographers Ukrainian public relations people Hromada (society) members