Розрита могила / Plundered grave (Ukraine) - Ukrainian poem

Розрита могила / Plundered grave (Ukraine). 1843. На слова Т. Шевченка. Виконання: Кому вниз. Ukrainian poem of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), the greatest classical Ukrainian poet. Its about Ukraine, described as plundered grave (by “Moskal“, i.e. Muscovites (tsarist Russia). Shevchenko blames the last hetman of Ukraine, the unwise son Bohdan Khmelnytsky who “sold“ Ukraine to Muscovy (in 1654), that utterly destroyed Ukrainian language, culture, traditions.... Persecution of things Ukranian took much hars