Pavlo Chubynsky
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Pavlo Chubynsky (1839 – January 26, 1884) was a Ukrainian
poet
and ethnographer whose poem "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished) was set to music and adapted as the Ukrainian national anthem.
In 1863 the Lviv
journal Meta (The Goal) published the poem but mistakenly ascribed it to Taras Shevchenko
. In the same year it was set to music by the Galician
composer Michael Verbytsky (1815–1870), first for solo and later choral performance.
This song's catchy melody and patriotic text quickly gained broad acceptance, but Pavlo Chubynsky was persecuted for the rest of his life by anti-Ukrainian Russian powers
. He was sent to Archangelsk province for "negatively influencing peasants' minds". When his work in that region was recognized internationally by his peers, Chubynsky 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.
In 1917 the song with his lyrics was officially adopted as the anthem of the Ukrainian state.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and ethnographer whose poem "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished) was set to music and adapted as the Ukrainian national anthem.
In 1863 the Lviv
Lviv
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. The city is regarded as one of the main cultural centres of today's Ukraine and historically has also been a major Polish and Jewish cultural center, as Poles and Jews were the two main ethnicities of the city until the outbreak of World War II and the following...
journal Meta (The Goal) published the poem but mistakenly ascribed it to Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko -Life:Born into a serf family of Hryhoriy Ivanovych Shevchenko and Kateryna Yakymivna Shevchenko in the village of Moryntsi, of Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven...
. In the same year it was set to music by the Galician
Galician people
The Galicians are an ethnic group, a nationality whose historical homeland is Galicia in north-western Spain. Most Galicians are bilingual, speaking both their historic language, Galician, and Castilian Spanish.-Political and administrative divisions:...
composer Michael Verbytsky (1815–1870), first for solo and later choral performance.
This song's catchy melody and patriotic text quickly gained broad acceptance, but Pavlo Chubynsky was persecuted for the rest of his life by anti-Ukrainian Russian powers
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...
. He was sent to Archangelsk province for "negatively influencing peasants' minds". When his work in that region was recognized internationally by his peers, Chubynsky was sent to Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
to work in the Transport Ministry as a low-level official. He became paralyzed in 1880 and died four years later.
In 1917 the song with his lyrics was officially adopted as the anthem of the Ukrainian state.