Wernyhora
Wernyhora is a legendary 18th century Cossack bard the fall of Poland and its subsequent rebirth and flourishing, "from Black to White sea".
He has been a subject of several folklore tales and poems. He often comes up in reference to the Ukrainian peasant uprising Koliivshchyna. Most notably he has been a character in works of Seweryn Goszczyński, Michał Czajkowski, Juliusz Słowacki and Stanisław Wyspiański, as well as a subject of a paintings by Jan Matejko and Jacek Malczewski.