Pavlo Ivanovych Hashchenko ( -1933) was a Ukrainian

Ukrainians

Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...

 kobzar

Kobzar

A Kobzar was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment.-Tradition:Kobzars were often blind, and became predominantly so by the 1800s...

 and bandura

Bandura

Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza...

 player.

Hashchenko was originally from Poltava

Poltava

Poltava is a city in located on the Vorskla River in central Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Poltava Oblast , as well as the surrounding Poltava Raion of the oblast. Poltava's estimated population is 298,652 ....

 province but lived most of his life in the village of Konstantynivka, Bohodukhiv

Bohodukhiv

Bohodukhiv is a city in the Kharkiv Oblast of eastern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Bohodukhivsky Raion , and is located on the Kharkiv-Sumy railway at around ....

 county, Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

 province.

Among the kobzars of the Slobozhan region he was thought of as one of the best, and consequently he was invited to perform at the XIIth Archeological Conference held in Kharkiv

Kharkiv

Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...

 in 1902.

At that concert Hashchenko's solo performance included the satirical song "Popadia" and he performed in the ensemble with other kobzars.

In 1905 Opanas Slastion

Opanas Slastion

Opanas Georgievych Slastion was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter and ethnographer.He was born in the Ukrainian port town of Berdyansk on the Berdyansk Gulf of the Sea of Azov...

 painted a portrait of Hashchenko and noted that Hashchenko knew four dumy

Duma (epic)

A Duma is a sung epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the sixteenth century...

(sung epic poems).

After the performance at the XIIth Archeological Conference Hashchenko performed at a numerous other kobzar

Kobzar

A Kobzar was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment.-Tradition:Kobzars were often blind, and became predominantly so by the 1800s...

 concerts, but without much fanfare, quietly and unobtrusively. There unfortunately is scant information in written sources about this kobzar.

Students

• Makarij Tymofiyevych Khrystenko (1914)
• I. Kuchuhura-Kucherenko
• S. Hryn'ko
• A. Maliovanyj

Sources

• Mishalow, V. and M. - Ukrains'ki kobzari-bandurysty - Sydney, Australia, 1986
• Khotkevych, Hnat - Materialy pro kobzariv ta lirnykiv - Lviv, Fond #688
• Humeniuk, A. - Ukrainski narodni muzychni instrumentsy - Kyiv 1967, p 79