Schedryk is the Ukrainian folk chant arranged by Mykola Leontovych in 1916 — exactly a century before this coin's issue — later adapted in the West as "Carol of the Bells." Leontovych was assassinated by a Soviet secret police agent in 1921, and the original Ukrainian identity of the melody was largely suppressed or ignored abroad for decades. The centenary issue directly reclaims that attribution.
Schedryk is the Ukrainian folk chant arranged by Mykola Leontovych in 1916 — exactly a century before this coin's issue — later adapted in the West as "Carol of the Bells." Leontovych was assassinated by a Soviet secret police agent in 1921, and the original Ukrainian identity of the melody was largely suppressed or ignored abroad for decades. The centenary issue directly reclaims that attribution.