Maksym Zaliznyak

A dynamic and decisive portrait of Maksym Zalizniak, ready for battle (ca. 1740 - after 1769), the leader of the Cossack uprising under the name of Koliyivshchyna (1768–1769) illustrating the image of the hero of the historical poem Taras Shevchenko "Haydamaky", which was written in St. Petersburg in 1839-1841: "Summer Eagle, Summer Blue / Pop in Heaven; / Gulia Maxim, walking father / Steppe forests. / Oh the eagle flies blue, / And behind him is an eagle; / Gul Maksim, father's father, / And after him guys. "

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