Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko, also The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov from the Russian of Mikhaíl Lermontov

LibriVox recording of Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko, also The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov from the Russian of Mikhaíl Lermontov by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov; Taras Shevchenko. (Translated by Ethel Lilian Voynich.) Read in English by Phil Benson Poems by two radical poets, born in the same year as subjects of the Tsarist Russian Empire, who were exiled and punished for the crime of writing poetry. Taras Shevchenko, born a serf, is celebrated as a father of poetry in the Ukrainian language (known at that time as Ruthenian), while Mikhail Lermontov, of noble birth, wrote