Kozak/Cossack language, 2

[Edward M Dumanis]

I'd like to thank Natalia Pylypiuk for her very interesting presentation.
However, I have a problem with the last argument.
I know that a Moscow Conservatory chorus sang in Finnish while performing 
in Finland. So far, I have not heard any claims on the Finnish origin of 
Muscovites.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Natalia Pylypiuk wrote:

> (cont.)
>
> (3) The kozak Samiilo Velychko (1620-1728), who worked in the chancellery of 
> Vasyl' Kochubei, left us a monumental, three volume chronicle, titled 
> "Skazaniie o voini kosatskoi z poliakamy, cherez Zinovia Bohdana 
> Khmelnytskoho ... v osmi litekh tochyvshaiasia,"
> This work is a critical response to the versified narrative, Wojna domowa z 
> Kozaki i Tatary,  by the Polish writer Samuel Twardowski, and various other 
> Kozak chronicles.  For a glimpse into Velychko's language, visit:
> <http://litopys.org.ua/old18/old18_33.htm>
> In the introduction to the second volume, which is not available on the 
> internet, Velychko refers to his country as Ukraina-Malorosiiska or Kozatska 
> Ukraina, and sometimes uses the modifiers Kozako-Ukrainska Malorosiiska.  He 
> also refers to his people as "narod nash Kozako Ruskii."  Velychko's language 
> differs somewhat from the Ruthenian spoken in mid-seventeenth century. It 
> reflects the dialect of left-bank Ukraine after more than fifty years of its 
> severance from the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth.  On aspects of this 
> chronicle, see Marko Pavlyshyn, "Writings in Ukraine and European Identity," 
> Themes and Variations in Slavic Languages and Cultures, ed. by David N. Wells 
> (2008) pp. 1-22
> < http://www.cerc.unimelb.edu.au/anzsa/MSK%20volume.pdf>
>
> I can cite countless other examples of writings by and for the Kozaky / 
> Cossacks of Ukraine.  Instead, I will refer you to:
> Serhii Plokhy, The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford 
> University Press, 2001),
> Frank Sysyn, "Recovering the Ancient and Recent Past: The Shaping of Memory 
> and Identity in Early Modern Ukraine,"
> Eighteenth-Century Studies - Volume 35, Number 1, Fall 2001, pp. 77-84
>
> Plokhy's book and Sysyn's article are not devoted to language issues, but do 
> shed considerable light on the culture of Kozaky / Cossacks.
>
> I will leave 19th c. texts for another discussion.
>
> Now let me cite something I witnessed in the winter of 1990, when I was 
> conducting research in Kyiv.  An ensemble of Kuban' Kozaky / Cossacks was on 
> tour, and performed at the prestigious Polytechnical Institute.  The 
> auditorium was completely full. Most of the songs they sang were in 
> Ukrainian, albeit slightly Russified.  Among the songs they sang, there was 
> one about hetman Doroshenko (1621).  And, much to my surprise, they concluded 
> the concert by singing the national anthem of Ukraine, "Shche ne vmerla 
> Ukraïna."  The audience stood up and sang with them.  This was before 
> Ukraine's declaration of independence.
>
> Since then, ensembles from the Kuban' have regularly attended the annual folk 
> festivals that take place in Ukraine.  However, in the summer of 2008, the 
> Russian government forbade all performers from the Kuban'  to travel abroad. 
> Thus, there were no "kubans'ki kozaky" at the Rivne festival.
>
> Regards,
>
> Natalia Pylypiuk
> (University of Alberta)
>
> p.s. I will return to the Volodymyr / Vladimir thread after correcting exams.
>
>
>
>
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