Загата | Павло Грабовський - "Заспів"

PAVLO GRABOVSKY (1864–1902) — Ukrainian poet, lyricist, publicist and translator. Born on September 11, 1864 in the Pushkarna settlement (now the village of Grabovske, Sumy region) into the family of a priest. He studied at the Kharkiv Theological Seminary, from which he was expelled in 1882 for his connections with the populist organization "Black Division" and the distribution of banned literature. He was under police supervision, later worked as a proofreader in Kharkiv and served in the army, without ceasing revolutionary activity. In 1888 he was sentenced to five years of exile to Siberia. During his transfer, he met Nadia Syhyda (to whom he dedicated a number of poems). The term of exile was extended for protests against the actions of the prison administration. He was in Balagansk, Irkutsk prison, Vilyuysk, Yakutsk, Tobolsk. In exile, he began a correspondence with Ivan Franko, prepared for publication the collections "Snowdrop" (1894), "From the North" (1896), "Kobza" (1898). He died on December 12, 1902 in Tobolsk. He was buried at the Zavalny cemetery next to the Decembrists. The "Zagata" project was created to draw attention to the poets of the Shot Revival and make their texts closer to the modern listener. The compositions can be found on streaming music services: Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music.