Positive or negative characters. Lyrical, dramatic, romantic or classic characters... Not everyone ends up being a character. But very few who made the leap from history to literature or art have been portrayed, over time, as variously as Ivan Mazepa, leader of the Cossacks (1639-1709). In our dramatisation today, we invite you to discover him through different perspectives.

REFERENCES

• Serhii Plohii - The Gates of Europe. A History of Ukraine/ TREI Publishing House, 2018
• BYRON - Mazepa/ WORKS. POETRY (2)/ UNIVERS Publishing House, 1986
• ALEXANDER PUSHKIN - POLTAVA/ PUBLISHED BY THE ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION FOR STRENGTHENING TIES WITH THE USSR - ARLUS, Russian Book Publishing House, 1949 
• Serhii Plokhy - Forbidden Love: Ivan Mazepa and the Author of the History of the Rus´ (Harvard Ukrainian Studies)
• The Guardian - Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia’s national poet under threat in Ukraine 
• Foreign Policy , Volodymyr Yermolenko - From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology
• interlude.hk/national-heroics-liszt-mazeppa
• eclecticlight.co/2018/10/07/from-indiscretion-to-burlesque-mazeppa-in-paint
• wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_legacy_of_Mazeppa

CREDITS

• DakhaBrakha - Sonnet (Live on KEXP)
• György CZIFFRA - LISZT Transcendental Etude No.4 in D minor Mazeppa
• DakhaBrakha - Kozak
• Liszt - Mazeppa, Symphonic Poem No. 6, S. 100 Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert von Karajan, Deutsche Grammophon
• Elbow - What Am I Without You
• The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather
• Dakh Daughters - Lmd
• Marie Clémence de Grandval - Mazeppa, Den Andra Operan tillsammans med Vadstena-Akademien, Confidencen, Damkapellet och Åbo Akademi
• Clips from A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa (Молитва за гетмана Мазепу, Molitva za getmana Mazepu), directed by Yuri Ilienco, 2002
• Lana Del Rey - High By The Beach
• Tchaikovsky - Mazepa, Kirov Opera 
• Ibrahim Maalouf - Sharon Stone - OUR FLAG
• Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever