Кобзар 1840 року (Тарас Шевченко)

This article contains the complete first edition of Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar (Saint Petersburg, 1840): eight poems, from the opening address to his own poems and the blind minstrel Perebendia to Kateryna, the story of a village girl abandoned by a Russian officer, The Poplar, Dumka, To Osnovianenko, Ivan Pidkova and Taras’s Night, with the lines cut by the censor marked by rows of dots. Level C2 suits readers who want to read Ukrainian at an earlier stage of its written history, in the Russian-based spelling of 1840. You will learn to read old spellings such as ы for и, и for і, the final ъ and -тця for -ться, together with the language of folk song and the Cossack past.