Pavlo Chubynskyi

Pavlo Platonovych Chubynskyi[a] (1839 – January 26, 1884), also anglicized as Paul Chubinsky, was a Ukrainian poet and ethnographer, best known as the author of the lyrics to the national anthem of Ukraine, set to music by Mykhailo Verbytskyi.

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In the same year it was set to music by the Galician composer Mykhailo Verbytsky, first for solo and later choral performance.

This song was disseminated throughout Ukraine as a rallying point for nationalist sentiments, leading Pavlo Chubynskyi to be seen as "negatively influencing peasants' minds" by the government of the Russian Empire.

They sought to neutralize his influence with assignments that isolated him, first to northern and cold Russian province Arkhangelsk.