Yaroslavna

Brief description

The work is an illustration of the poetry of Taras Shevchenko "Crying of Yaroslavna" - one of the echoes of the outstanding monument of ancient Russian literature "Lay of Igor's Warfare". The author managed to achieve drama in the transmission of the image of Yaroslavna, which echoes the legendary song of the wife of Prince Igor, son of Svyatoslav, Yaroslavna: Lances sing on the Danube! Yaroslavna’s voice is heard. As a gull the unrecognized one calls out early: “I shall fly,” she said, “as a gull along the Danube. I shall rinse my beaver sleeve in the River Kaiala and wipe away bloody wounds from my Prince’ s sturdy body. ”
Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.