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Who better to tell the story of Ukraine than a kobzar, one of the country’s blind wandering minstrels that sang of its history and people? It is this iconic and entertaining figure, who walked the land and conveyed its traditions, that serves as the prism through which Taras Shevchenko composed his pioneering collection of poems, The Kobzar.The origin of the poems themselves is extraordinary. Written over a span of nearly 25 years, they mark many crossroads in Shevchenko’s life. Th...

Artists in Ukraine have lost their livelihoods. The Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project was launched to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.It is a fundamental aspect of war to suppress story, language, and culture. Moved by this crisis of culture, members of PANA (the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association) created this audiobook to raise money for Ukrainian relief. Joined by writers and musicians, we have volunteered our work to show our suppor...

Progress issued five volumes of nineteenth-century verse and prose in one series, and four of them head the half-title page Russian Classics Series: Turgenev in 1974, Saltykov-Shchedrin in 1975, Lermontov in 1978, Gogol in 1980. This volume, of 1979, reads only Classics Series. Somebody in Moscow, preparing the Ukrainian national poet for foreign readers, decided he could not be filed under Russian classics, and did not put Ukrainian in place of the missing word either. The category was si...

In 1838 a portrait was raffled in Petersburg for two and a half thousand roubles, and the money bought a man out of serfdom. Two years later Taras Shevchenko published Kobzar, and Ukrainian literature had its national poet. In 1847 he was arrested with a Kyiv society that wanted a federation of Slav republics and the abolition of serfdom; because poems were found on him his sentence was the heaviest of the group, and Nicholas I added an instruction in his own hand that the prisoner be forb...

Kobzar (Ukrainian: Кобзар, "The bard"), is a book of poems by Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko.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.A complete collection of Ukrainian poems by Taras Shevchenko is called Kobzar too, after the title of Shevchenko's first book.

Ways of Healing is an embodied collection with a distinctive and tough but tender voice. Charlotte Shevchenko Knight explores themes of longing, of loss, and of pain and its remedies. These poems are alive with their own vulnerability, are at times unnerving, and are always packed with astonishing sensations and images.

All proceeds from the sale of The Kobzar of Ukraine will be donated by the publisher to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation to help support displaced Ukrainians arriving in Canada through the Displaced Ukrainians Appeal.The Kobzar of Ukraine is a collection of poems by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, arguably the most well-known and beloved poet of Ukraine. His life story — told in biographical sketches throughout the book — is analogous to the story of Ukraine itself: ...

Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage. As a foundational text, The Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine's written language and Ukrainian literature. The first editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made an enduring impact on Ukr...

Uneven side edges instantly downgrade any knitting project.This is especially true for projects with open edges like blankets, scarves and cardigans.I wrote this book to make sure this unpleasant issue never happens to YOUR knits.The book describes twelve ways to keep the side edges neat and tidy, starting with simple one-stitch selvedges and moving to fancier decorative edgings.You...

Who are the Ukrainians? What are the key historical and cultural events that have shaped them? What are their values, and what challenges do they face today?Ukraine is a country of paradoxes. The people are proud of their roots, yet reticent about their recent past; the country participates in international space programs and produces the world's largest aircraft, but still lives in a world rich with superstition. The Ukrainian way of life is a mix of the old Sovie...

This book features state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) development and implementation, focusing on recent results and distinguished achievements. It analyzes AI implementation prospects, some new research tendencies and trends for AI development as well as corresponding challenges and risks. The book consists of twelve chapters in the AI field which may be conditionally divided into two groups.One group of chapters is devoted to the overview, analysis and the discussion o...

Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural heritage. As a foundational text, The Kobzar has played an important role in galvanizing the Ukrainian identity and in the development of Ukraine's written language and Ukrainian literature. The first editions had been censored by the Russian czar, but the book still made an enduring impact on Ukr...