ІІ етап Всеукраїнської учнівської олімпіади з англійської мови (аудіювання) 2019-2020 н.р. 8 клас

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Personalities of Velyka Pysarivka

Yehor Khomich Movchan is the last of the Ukrainian kobzars. He was born in 1898 in Velyka Pysarivka which at that time belonged the Bohoduhivskiy Yizd Kharkiv province in the family of peasant. At the age of 10 Yehor fell seriously ill. It was smallpox which at that time was untreated and after it he almost completely lost his sight.

His elder sister Oksana worked in Kharkiv and was able to arrange a brother at Kharkiv musical boarding school for the blind children. Some years later Movchan returned to Pysarivka and started to learn kobzarstvo under the local musician Stepan Pasuga. Yehor Movchan with his kobza bypassed more hundreds of villages and towns. He sang couplets and dumy about hunger and Ukrainian people.

Movchan survived two famines, occupations and escaped of shooting in 1933. People of Pysarivka who knew Yehor Khomich say that he had a deep and penetrating voice which always attracted a lot of listeners in the streets and squares. As a person he was strong and brave and due it he had managed to survive the terrible time.

In 1933 the famous Ukrainian Kobzar was invited to the Congress of Kobzars in Kharkiv. Movchan was unable to go there because of illness. Then he had learned that all his friends were taken from the Congress and shot. So Yehor Movchan is known as the last wandering Kobzar of Ukraine.

Maksym Rylskyi respected Movchan and his talent very much. Rylskyi even gave him an expensive kobza with the portrait of Taras Shevchenko. The great Kobzar died in Puscha-Vodytsya in the house of the veterans. In the centre of Pysarivka there is a monument to Yehor Khomich Movchan. The street where he lived was also renamed from Soviet to Movchan.