Ukrainian literature is literature written in the Ukrainian language.
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Ostap Mykytovych Veresai was a renowned minstrel and kobzar from the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire. He helped to popularize kobzar art both within Ukraine and beyond. He is noted for influencing both scholarly and popular approaches to minstrelsy.
Ostap Veresai
Ostap Veresai with his wife Kulyna. Photo taken in 1873 during the Archeological Congress in Kyiv.