Veresai, Ostap [Veresaj], born 1803 in Kaliuzhyntsi, Pryluka county, Poltava gubernia, died April 1890 in Sokyryntsi, Pryluka county, Poltava gubernia. Kobza player and singer (tenor). A peasant who became blind in his early youth, he studied from 1818 with S. Koshovy and other kobzars. By the 1860s he was the most renowned performer of Ukrainian epic and historic songs. In 1873 he appeared in recital for the Southwestern Branch of the Imperial Russian Geographic Society and in 1875 concertized in St Petersburg. His repertoire included the dumas Kinless Fedir, Three Brothers from Azov, and Oleksii Popovych. Veresai's artistry was studied by ethnographers such as 0. Rusov and P. Chubynsky, as well as by M. Lysenko, who wrote a monograph on the works in Veresai's repertoire (1873, 1978).

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Zhydachiv [Zydaciv]. A town (1989 pop. 11,200) on the Stryi River and a raion center in Lviv oblast. One of the oldest towns in Ukraine, it is first mentioned in the chronicles under the year 1164, as Udech. At different times it has also been known as Sudachiv, Zidachiv, and Zudechiv. The town was an important trading center on the routes between the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia, Kievan Rus', Western Europe, and the Black Sea. In 1241 it was sacked by the Tatars, and 10 years later it was recaptured by Danylo Romanovych. From the mid-14th century it was under Polish rule, and in 1393 it was granted the rights of Magdeburg law. The townsmen rebelled against the Polish overlords in 1648 but were soon subjugated. An Orthodox brotherhood arose to resist union with the Roman Catholic church. A cholera epidemic in 1676 reduced the population by half. By the end of the century the town had declined to a village. After the partition of Poland in 1772 Zhydachiv was annexed by Austria, and in 1867 it became a county center in Galicia. In the interwar period Zhydachiv was under Polish rule. Today it is a transportation and industrial center. It has a cellulose and carton, a brick, and a cheese factory.

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Lustration (liustratsiia; Polish: lustracja; derived from the Latin lustrum, a five-year period or censor's term of office). An inventory of royal lands for tax and military purposes. The first such descriptions were prepared in the Lithuanian-Ruthenian state in the early 16th century. From 1568 until the partitions of Poland they were prepared by Polish officials (lustratory) every five years. The lustration contained detailed information about estates and villages, their inhabitants, and the condition of lands, domestic animals, and buildings. After the Polish partitions the tsarist government carried out lustrations in the annexed territories in 1778-9, 1839-63, and 1867. The voluminous data recorded in the lustrations make them an important source for the social and economic history of Ukraine.

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