Information: - Russia (from the Rus'), also officially known as the Russian Federation, is a country in Eurasia. At , Russia is the largest country in the world by surface area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with over 140million people at the end of March 2016. The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern, about 77% of the population live in European Russia. Russia's capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world, other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara. - Kharkov Governorate was a governorate of the Russian Empire founded in 1835. It embraced the historical region of Sloboda Ukraine. From 1765 to 1780 and from 1796 to 1835 the governorate was called the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. In 1780-1796 there existed the Kharkov Viceroyalty. - The PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, formally the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, after 1791 the Commonwealth of Poland, was a dualistic state, a bi-confederation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch, who was both the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania. It was one of the largest and most populous countries of 16th- and 17th-century Europe. At its peak in the early 17th century, the Commonwealth spanned some and sustained a multi-ethnic population of 11 million. The union was formalized by the Union of Lublin in July 1569, but the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were in a de-facto personal union since 1386 with the marriage of the Polish queen Hedwig and Lithuania's Grand Duke Jogaila, who was crowned King "jure uxoris" Wadysaw II Jagieo of Poland. The First Partition of Poland in 1772 and the Second Partition of Poland in 1793 greatly reduced the nation's size and the Commonwealth disappeared as an independent state following the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. - Sloboda Ukraine (literally: Borderland of free frontier guards, , translit. "Slobodskaya Ukraina", "Slobozhanshchina" translit. "Slobids'ka Ukrayina", "Slobozhanshchyna") is a historical region, now located in Northeastern Ukraine and Southwestern Russia. It developed and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries on the southwestern frontier of the Tsardom of Russia. In 1765 it was converted into the Sloboda Ukraine Governorate. - Napoleon Bonaparte ("Napoleon Bonaparte"; , born ""Napoleone di Buonaparte""; 15 August 1769 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. One of the greatest commanders in history, his wars and campaigns are studied at military schools worldwide. Napoleon's political and cultural legacy has ensured his status as one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders in human history. - The Ottoman Empire ('; Modern Turkish: ' or '), also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Sout by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe, and with the conquest of the Balkans the Ottoman Beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. - Russia, also officially known as the Russian Empire, was a state that existed from 1721 until it was overthrown by the short-lived liberal February Revolution in 1917. One of the largest empires in world history, stretching over three continents, the Russian Empire was surpassed in landmass only by the British and Mongol empires. The rise of the Russian Empire happened in association with the decline of neighboring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth, Persia and the Ottoman Empire. It played a major role in 181214 in defeating Napoleon's ambitions to control Europe, and expanded to the west and south. - The Swedish Empire refers to the Kingdom of Sweden's territorial control of much of the Baltic region during the 17th and early 18th centuries, a time when Sweden was one of the great European powers. The beginning of the Empire is usually taken as the reign of Gustavus Adolphus, who ascended the throne in 1611, and the end as the loss of territories in 1721 following the Great Northern War. In Swedish history, the period is referred to as "stormaktstiden", literally meaning "the Great Power era". - Stepan Artemovych Pasiuha ( 11 December 1862 -- 1933 ; although Zheplynsky states that he was born 29 November 1862 ) was originally from the town of Velyki Pysarivky , Bohodukhiv county , in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire . He learned to play the bandura from Dmytro Trochenko ( Trottchenko ) . He had seven dumy ( sung epic poems ) in his repertoire : 1 . Marusia Bohuslavka 2 . The Widow and her three sons 3 . The Sister and Brother 4 . Oleksiy Popovych 5 . Captives lament 6 . Ivan Konovchenko , the Widow 's Son 7 . The Escape of the Three Brothers from Oziv . Left and Right - Portraits of S. Pasiuha from 1910 from Slastion 's collection of Kobzar portraits . The first three dumy were recorded on phonograph by Opanas Slastion and sent to Filaret Kolessa in Lviv . Filaret Kolessa wrote that : '' In his recitations , sung with a nice baritone , we hear the importance of the recitative above the melody . The singing and playing of Stepan Pasiuha makes a nice artistic impression . '' Yehor Movchan was a student of Pasiuha , and highly praised him as a teacher of singing and playing , and also as a kobzar who demonstrated great artism in his performance of dumy . He often spoke : '' there probably was never such a kobzar like Pasiuha and in the future there never will be . '' In 1910 , Opanas Slastion painted two portraits of the kobzar . In 1915 he was arrested and spent time incarcerated . Photo : ( left ) Pasiuha in 1910 Photo : ( right ) Pasiuha with his student Hryhory Kozhushko in 1913 at the Poltava Artisans exhibition . From graphic sources his bandura had : Portrait 1 - 4 basses and 14 treble strings ( 16 pegs ) Portrait 2 - 6 basses and 14 treble strings What is the relationship between 'stepan pasiuha' and 'ukraine'?
country of citizenship