Friends!

On this day 25 years ago Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the musical version of the National Anthem of Ukraine.

"Ukraine has not perished, nor her glory, nor freedom,
To us, fellows-Ukrainians, fate shall smile once! "

These words are great and prophetic, as well as special and unique music! Also the history of this song is special.

Anthem was created in 1862. According to legend, one evening Ukrainian poet and folklorist Paul Chubynsky was sitting with Serbian students. They sang a song in which the words were “срце бије и крв лије за своју слободу”.

Chubinsky was so impressed with this line that he went into another room and returned in a short time with the text "Ukraine is still alive." Some scholars believe that he was also influenced by motives of mazurka «Jeszcze Polska nie zgineła ...», which later became the Polish anthem.

The poetic text was published in Lviv magazine "Meta" in 1863. There the future author of music - priest Mikhail Verbitsky saw the. He was a famous composer and put all his skills into work. So, the song became unique. It absorbed not only strong words, but profound, full of spiritual notes music. Ukrainian anthem has even some liturgical character.

In 1939, the song was used as the anthem of the Carpathian Ukraine. Instead, the Soviet Union decided that "Ukraine is still alive" was ​​too dangerous and can cause separatist sentiment, so it was ignored.

I believe that this wonderful composition of Chubinsky and Verbitsky is the pearl which we should be proud of. Its melody touches the soul, and the words -are prophetic.

"Our enemies will die, like a dew upon the sun,
And we shall rule, brothers, in one side! "