Page 109 - 4331

finance.
2. The state bank was established.
3. The uniform state revision centre was
introduced.
4. The uniform state cash offices controlling
all state profits and expenses was established.
5. The excise duty on spirits was introduced.
6. Taxes on large-scale goods were raised.
7. The budget publicity was established, the
state record of profits and expenses started to
be published in press.
1862 P. Chubynsky wrote the poem
“П.Чубинський написав вірш „Ukraine’s
glory has not yet perished” (“Shche ne
vmerla Ukrayina”). It was published in 1863
and quickly spread among Ukrainian youth.
The music was created by M. Verbytsky, the
west-Ukrainian composer. Soon this song-
poem actually became the national anthem.
On January, 16, 1992 it was proclaimed the
official national anthem of Ukraine.
January 1863- The Polish uprising against the oppression of
April tsarist Russia. It also covered right-bank
1864 Ukraine. The liberation movement members
distributed appeals, leaflets, proclamations
among population, “The Letter to Peasants”
(“The Gold Letter”) in particular. The ‘Gold
Letter” proclaimed peasant freedom and their
equality to other citizens, the lands used by
peasants were to be considered their property.
But Ukrainian peasants did not trust the
Polish nobility and did not follow them.
Russia with the help of Austria and Prussia

107