„Duma kozacka o wojnie z Kozakami” – zapomniany zabytek poezji rusko-polskiej
“Duma kozacka o wojnie z Kozakami” (“Cossack Elegy on a War with the Cossacks”)—a Forgotten Relic of Ruthenian-Polish Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article contains an edition of “Duma kozacka o wojnie z Kozakami” (“Cossack Elegy on a War with the Cossacks”), a piece in the Ruthenian language, referring to the Battle of Berestechko, preserved in a unique 1651 print, here preceded by a literary-historical foreword. The piece, published to this date only in transliteration and almost absent from the Polish subject matter, stands out above fragments of preserved Ruthenian pieces printed in Latin characters in its completeness, and is viewed as the only so comprehensive occasional account from the times of the Cossack Wars. An analysis of the content and eliciting the song structure of the verse makes it possible to categorise it into the Jesuit propaganda prints issued in Ukraine in order to strengthen the position of the Uniate Church and the Society of Jesus itself whose activity in the time of the the Khmelnytsky Uprising was markedly limited. The presented edition is a proposal to employ unified rules of transcription for modern texts in Ruthenian printed in Latin alphabet.

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