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Read Taras Shevchenko’s Haidamaky in Ukrainian, as first printed in 1841. Level C2: the Koliivshchyna of 1768, Yarema and Oksana, with word translation.
1840s Russian-based Ukrainian spelling (ы for и, и for і, final ъ, ё, ѣ), joined particles (Недасть, невчилы), 18th-century Cossack and church vocabulary (свяченый, тытаръ, бунчук, булава), Polish phrases (Niepozwalam), Romantic verse with refrains and inversions, the history of the Koliivshchyna of 1768
This article contains the full text of Taras Shevchenko’s historical poem Haidamaky (first published in 1841), about the Koliivshchyna, the uprising of 1768 in Right-Bank Ukraine, and the orphan Yarema who joins the rebels while searching for his beloved Oksana. Level C2 suits readers who can handle a historical stage of Ukrainian: the Russian-based spelling of the 1840s, 18th-century vocabulary and Romantic verse. You will learn to read old Ukrainian spelling and the language of Cossack history and folk song.