 that today I am not going to speak Russian, I am going to speak Ukrainian. And he began writing poems in Ukrainian. So it's amazing that a poet would refuse his own language. The story of his wife, in some way, Lyudmila Khersonsty, is even more interesting. Lyudmila Khersonsty was born in the country of Moldova, so Ukrainian was never her language. She had to learn Ukrainian in order to write poetry in it.