Does Taras Shevchenko have an offensive poem about Ukrainians?

In Russian -speaking blogs and forums, a poem allegedly written by Taras Shevchenko, which not only offends the Ukrainian people, but also contains humiliating national nicknames “Khokhol”, “Jew” and “Lyakh” is replicated on the forums. We checked whether this poem belongs to the Ukrainian poet.

About ten years ago in Runet it became spread The allegedly prohibited poem by Taras Shevchenko Khokhly. First in Russian, and later translated into Ukrainian:

"The crest will remain a crest
Though you let him go to Europe.
Where to act with the mind,
He strains only w ... Pu.
And therefore in Rus'
Testament is already by Monomakh:
"God forbid
With three - Jew, Khokhl and Lyakh. "
The jerk is cobbled, albeit blind,
Puffy Lyakh - worse than bl ... and,
The crest will eat bread with you
And then he will shit you into the soup. ”
(Khokhly, T. G. Shevchenko, 1851)

"Khokhol get stuck with a crest,
I want to let the yogo in єvrop.
De Treba Dіyati Rosum,
VIN I will put on the tilki w ... Pu.
I was on Rusi
Commandedly as much as Monomakh:
“Zv’s god Zbav!
Z TROMA - Jew, Khokhl I Lyakh. "
PIDSTYSTEN JURA, I want,
Swanlivius Lyakh - Girche Bl ... I,
Khokhol Z'yte with you hlib
I will shit to the soup of Tobi right there. ”

Hundreds of Russian -speaking Blogs And posts In social networks, this poem is quoted, especially against the backdrop of an aggravated conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

Bringing the poem Shevchenko, the authors of posts often Reference On the same collection of his works: “Full works of T. G. Shevchenko”, 1914, publication of L. M. Rotenberg. Turning to Pages With the content of this collection, it is easy to make sure that the poems of Khokhly are not in it.

This poem, allegedly written in 1851, is not in a six -volume collection works Shevchenko. In addition, from 1850 to 1857 Shevchenko He was in exile in the Novopetrovsk fortification, where he was by decree of Emperor Nicholas I forbidden Write and draw. Shevchenko received the punishment for revolutionary poems from the manuscript collection “Three LITA”, the texts of which during the search were found with the members of the “Cyril-Methodius Brotherhood”. Participants in this organization were interested in the development of Slavic nationalities, in particular Ukrainian, and were arrested in 1846 on charges of creating a political organization.

From report Count Alexei Orlov, the head of the third branch - the highest body of the political police of the Russian Empire - it is clear that Shevchenko was convicted of the glorification of Ukraine and its people and “Ukrainophilism”: “Shevchenko composed poems in the Little Russian language of the most outrageous content. In them, he either expressed crying about the imaginary enslavement and disasters of Ukraine, then led about the glory of the hetman rule and the former freemen of the Cossacks, then with incredible insolence poured slander and bile on a person of the imperial house, forgetting their personal benefactors. In addition to the fact that everything forbidden fascinates youth and people with a weak character, Shevchenko acquired a significant Little Russian writer between his friends, and therefore his poems are doubly harmful and dangerous. With their favorite verses in Little Russia, thoughts about the imaginary bliss of the time of the hetman, about the happiness of returning these times and about the possibility of Ukrainian exist in the form of a separate state could be taken away and subsequently. ”

According to the verdict of the third branch, Shevchenko was sent to soldiers to the Orenburg Corps, since the recruitment service was then a common punishment. In addition to this Shevchenko It was forbidden To draw and write: “The artist Shevchenko for composing the outrageous and highly daring poems, as gifted with a strong physique, to determine the ordinary corps with the right of service, instructing the authorities to have a strict observation, so that outrageous and passionate works could not be released from him.”

IN complete works Shevchenko is visible a gap from 1850 to 1857. Either he really did not write poetry in exile, or these works have not survived to this day. From the letters of Shevchenko for that period it is clear that he was missing Ukraine and fellow countrymen. For example, in 1852, in a letter to the philologist and researcher of the literature of Little Russia Osip Bodyansky Shevchenko Writes: “I thought, thought, and I invented this: go a little prisoner for the sake and came the chronicle Konis or VelichkaI will tell you great thank you. Since the time of my exile, I have not read a single letter about our poor Little Russia, and what I knew about its past before, I quickly forget the little, and your gift will be a true joy for me. ” It is unlikely that a poet who describes his homeland with such warmth during a link would write an insulting poem about its people.

The fact that Shevchenko’s poem is a fake indicates the confusion in versions of its origin. The author of one of the earliest references to the poem first Writesthat it was written by Shevchenko in 1871, that is, ten years after the death of the poet, and in the record made by the same user a year later, which is in 1851.

Some users are jokingly They saythat this poem was converted from Pushkin’s poem “Rusnya will remain Rusna”, probably to show how easy it is to rewrite this verse in order to denigrate any people. Many inclined to the fact that the unknown author took an excerpt from the work of Gabriel Derzhavin as the basis of the fake. "Noelmozha" (1794):

“The donkey will remain a donkey
Although scree it with stars;
Where should be valid with the mind
He only claps his ears. "

In 2007 in the Live Journal appeared The intermediate version of Shevchenko’s poem, where in the lines of Derzhavin the word “donkey” was replaced by a “crest”.

Many Users And FACECHERSRefuting the authorship of Shevchenko, believe that the poem was written by the modern poet Alexander Noshchenko, who published it on the website "Poems.ru" in 2009. According to them, now the page is not available, the archived versions have not been preserved. In prove users bring Noshchenko’s words without indicating the source (spelling and punctuation are preserved): “To the issue of authorship; It was written as a cartoon - an angry joke, the time of writing - until 2009, published in 2009 here on the site, because I myself have a chokhol, but during the information war, any material can be used as weapons. I was asked to publish this verse repeatedly in a refutation of the fake walking for more than 2 years under the authorship of T.G.Shevchenko. I am not at all ashamed of this evil cartoon, because it was an answer to the ardent Svidomites - nationalists who, after 6 years, with the support of the United States, came to power in our country and destroyed my beloved homeland, like a state. ”

IN Archival version The list of Nushchenko’s poems for 2009 is not a work “Khokhly”, and the subject of the author’s work in those days was completely different: religious and love lyrics. According to the "Internet Archive", in April 2014 And in August 2016 For years, Noshchenko published poems with the heading “Khokhol will remain Khokhl, which were later deleted. In 2017, he changed the user's name to Alex Nosenko and Added In its profile, an image with the text of the poem and the inscription over Shevchenko’s portrait “Fake Author Noshchenko”. Now on the page of Alex Nosenko there is only a poem with an identical title, published March 27, 2022, the text of which coincides with the widespread poem Shevchenko. It is impossible to compare it with early versions to “Poems.ru”, since the publications of Noshchenko for 2009, 2014 and 2016 were not preserved.

In any case, whoever the author of this poem is, it can be confidently argued that Taras Shevchenko did not write these lines insulting to his people.

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