Perebendya is a poem by 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...

 about the blind

Blind musicians

Blind musicians are singers or instrumentalists, or in some cases singer-accompanists, who are legally blind.- Resources :Historically, many blind musicians, including some of the most famous, have performed without the benefit of formal instruction, since such instruction relies extensively on...

 itinerant Ukrainian bard (Kobzar

Kobzar

A Kobzar was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment.-Tradition:Kobzars were often blind, and became predominantly so by the 1800s...

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The poem is dated as written in approximately 1839 in Saint Peterburg. The fist known publication of this poem, originally dedicated to Yevhen Hrebinka

Yevhen Hrebinka

Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka was a Ukrainian romantic writer and poet. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.His works first started being published in 1831...

, is considered the 1840 Kobzar

Kobzar (book)

Kobzar , 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...

(also in Saint Peterburg), the first edition of this Shevchenko's best known poetry collection. The poem was published again in the 1844 edition of Kobzar without the dedication to Hrebinka and with some orthographic changes. The same year the poem was published in the Polish transliteration in the collection «Wirszy T. Szewczenka» (the publication contained one grammatical error in declension

Declension

In linguistics, declension is the inflection of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, and articles to indicate number , case , and gender...

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When, after his return from the exile, Shevchenko was preparing the publication "Poetry by Shevchenko. Volume 1" he reworked the text again and renamed the poem to "Kobzar". The new publication of the volume encountered the difficulties with the censorship office that only granted the permission to reprint the previously published collection. Therefore, the compromise version of the poem was published in 1860 with only some of the poet's corrections being included.

When the publication was in print, Shevchenko made several more changes. The manuscript reveals that he restored the original name while not crossing out the new one as well as several other changes.

Ivan Yizhakevych

Ivan Yizhakevych

Ivan Sydorovych Yizhakevych was a painter, writer, and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR .- Life, Education and Work :Yizhakevych was born in the village of Vyshnopoli, Cherkasy Oblast. He was educated in the M. Murashko School of Art in Kiev , Ukraine from 1882 to 1884. Following this...

has a painting with the same name based on the same poem by Taras Shevchenko.