Wernyhora


Wernyhora is a legendary 18th century Cossack bard the fall of Poland and its subsequent rebirth and flourishing, "from Black to White sea".
He has been a subject of several folklore tales and poems. Most notably he has been a character in works of Seweryn Goszczyński, Michał Czajkowski, Juliusz Słowacki and Stanislaw Wyspiański, as well as a subject of a paintings by Jan Matejko and Jacek Malczewski.