Talented author - Yevgeny Adamtsevich.

Did you hear the famous "Zaporozhian march"? When this melody was first heard in the hall of the Kyiv Opera House, nobody doubted - it's music of independence. Years passed, "Zaporozhian March" became a folk melody, and few people remember that it had a talented author - Yevgeny Adamtsevich.

Ukrainian musician was born on January 1, 1904 in the village of Solonitsa, Poltava region, in the family of a station officer. When Eugene was only two years old, he lost his sight due to illness. But it did not make the boy lose his thirst for life. Parents sent him to study at the Kiev school for the blind. There, Eugene learned to play bandura, violin and sopilka. He sang well - his baritone covered two octaves. Mussi Olexeienko, a bandura player, taught boy to play the hardest instrument.

Subsequently, the young man moved to live to his grandmother to Romny, a city that in the 1920s was a prominent regional cultural center. There was a drama theater, and a significant cell of kobzaws. Yevgen Adamtsevich joined the Mirgorod chamber of bandura players, had started to play on public from 1927.

An outstanding musician over the years experienced a lot of grief: the hard 30th years of extermination of kobza and bandurgery, persecution, poverty, repression and oppression. However, Adamtsevich had a strong spirit and never folded his hands.

The girl Lidia fell in love with such a strong, courageous and talented handsome man. A cute young woman threw everything, escaped from home,

just in order to be close to her beloved Eugene. Couple had three daughters, for whom Eugene had built a house near the railway in Romny.

Eugene earned money hardly, he sang on the Romanian market. The Soviet government interpreted this as begging, so talented musician was often persecuted. There were occasions than he, the blind man, was taken away from the city, thrown alone in the forest, sometimes got arrested.

The life of a kobzar was not easy after the Second World War, because he did not have a seniority, he did not earn a pension. Again and again he had to return to the playing on the bazaar. The material position of the family improved when the union of singers-kobza-players appeared. There they began to organize concerts and pay for them some money.

Now imagine: Kiev Opera House named after T.G. Shevchenko, concert of kobzars and lyre players. Young girls bring to the scene a blind bandurist Yevgen Adamsevich. A high and strong kobzar touches bandura strings, and timidly says: "Zaporozhian March". At first, the hall stopped, listening to an unknown for many melody, then people began to rise from the seats ... the hall burst into applause. This work immediately became something important for all Ukrainians. A melody of the spirit, which spoke from the heart of an unbroken man.

At nnight on January 13, 1972, the second mowing of the intellectuals took place. The Kobzar Association closed its activities. Adamtsevich and his wife moved to their daughter to the village of Kholmovka, Bakhchysaray district in the Crimea. There, Yevgeny Adamtsevich, died - 45 years ago, on November 19, 1972. He was 67.

This is sad, instructive, full of strength and faith, story of the outstanding Ukrainian bandurist Yevhen Adamstsevich. He lived a hard life, but he was able to urge Ukrainians not to give up and believe in a bright future. So let's follow his calls.