Tomorrow we will hike

Brief description

The liner "Tomorrow we will hike" in its content and iconography is close to Cossack motifs in the poetry of Taras Shevchenko, in particular in the poems "The Blind" (1845) and "Slave" (1859). The author uses a rich language of characters. Kobza in the hands of the Cossack points to the main character of Shevchenko's poem - Stepan, who lost his sight during the campaign. At one time the title of the work resembles the words of the ancient Cossack song: "Flow in the wind, oh, dry oak / Tomorrow will be cold; / Oh come on, young Cossack, / Tomorrow we will hike! "

Maria Cymbalista 
Head of Prints and Drawings department
From the collection of Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv.