Bayda

Sofia Karaffa-Korbut has repeatedly addressed the image of Bayda. The work is based on the ancient Cossack Duma of the XVI century, which tells about the charismatic figure of the founder of Zaporizhzhya Sich and one of its first hetmans - Dmytro Vyshnevetsky nicknamed Bayda (1516-1563), nobleman, defender of Ukrainian lands against the attacks of the Turks and Tatars: In the Tsaregrad, on the market, / Oi drinks Bajda vodka; / So drinks Bayda - a day, and another, / Night by night, hour by hour ... / ... "There I see three dovelets / - I want to kill them for his daughter!" / One shot - the king shot, / The queen's next - in the back of the head / / His daughter was well shot in the head ».

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