Karmalyuk was the subject of three portraits by Russian painter Vasily Tropinin. There are a few different versions of Karmalyuk's acquaintance with the artist. According to one version Tropinin was introduced to Karmaliuk by his friend physician Prokopy Danylevsky, who had given medical help to Karmalyuk's people. According to another version, Tropinin painted Karmaliuk inside prison. Three portraits of Karmalyuk by Tropinin survive. One is kept in the Nizhny Tagil art museum, another in the Tretyakov Gallery and the third is in the Russian Museum. Karmalyuk was the subject of a number of poems by the songwriter Tomasz Padura, some of which became folk songs. Faust Lopatinsky directed the silent film "Karmalyuk" in 1931. Literary works dedicated to Ustym Karmalyuk include: Marko Vovchok – a historic children novella Karmalyuk (in Ukrainian, 1865); Mykhailo Starytskyi – a novel in 2 volumes, Rogue Karmelyuk (in Russian, 1908) (Ukrainian translation, 1909); Dmytro Tiahnyhore – a four-act play, Karmalyuk (in Ukrainian, 1920); Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska – a five-act play, Rogue Karmelyuk (in Ukrainian, 1926); Stepan Vasylchenko – a three-act play – Rogue Karmelyuk (in Ukrainian, 1927); Vasyl Kucher – Ustym Karmalyuk (in Ukrainian, a novella in 1940, a novel in 1954, based on the 1940 novella); Ivan Drach – The Ballad of Karmalyuk – a poem included in his book Poems (in Ukrainian, 1967); Volodymyr Gzhytskyi – Karmalyuk (in Ukrainian, 1971); Hyzha Oleksandra – Siege of Karmalyuk (in Ukrainian, 1990). Footnotes a. In honor of Karmaliuk, the Pope's Tower where he was frequently held captive in is also referred to as "Karmaliuk's Tower." References Bibliography Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben, The Road from Letichev: The history and culture of a forgotten Jewish community in Eastern Europe, Volume 2. iUniverse, Lincoln, NE, 2000, pp. 465–468. 1787 births 1835 deaths People from Vinnytsia Oblast People from Podolia Voivodeship Ukrainian folklore Yiddish-speaking people