Сластион Афанасий Георгиевич (1855-33)

Dedicated to Ukrainian kobzars. A Kobzar (Ukrainian: кобзар, pl. kobzari Ukrainian: кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own were often blind, Kobzar literally means ’kobza player’, a Ukrainian stringed instrument of the lute family, and more broadly — a performer of the musical material associated with the kobzar tradition[ The kobzar tradition was established widely during the Hetmanate Era around the sixteenth century in Ukraine but it came from Kyiv Rus. Kobzars accompanied their singing with a musical instrument known as the kobza, bandura or lira. Their repertoire primarily consisted of para-liturgical psalms and “kanty“, and also included a unique epic form known as dumas. The pictures were painted by Opanas Slastion. Opanas Georgievych (Heorhiiovych) Slastion (Ukrainian: Опанас Георгійович Сластьон) (1855 - 1933) was born in the Ukrainian port town of Berdyansk on the Berdyansk Gul