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    Taras Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet and artist who is considered the national bard of Ukraine. He was born a serf in 1814 but was later freed. He studied art in St. Petersburg and published his first collection of poems in 1840. However, he was arrested in 1847 for his involvement in a secret political society and exiled for 10 years, which ruined his health. Shevchenko made major contributions to Ukrainian literature and history through his poetry and art before his early death in 1861.

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    Taras Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet and artist who is considered the national bard of Ukraine. He was born a serf in 1814 but was later freed. He studied art in St. Petersburg and published his first collection of poems in 1840. However, he was arrested in 1847 for his involvement in a secret political society and exiled for 10 years, which ruined his health. Shevchenko made major contributions to Ukrainian literature and history through his poetry and art before his early death in 1861.

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    Taras Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet and artist who is considered the national bard of Ukraine. He was born a serf in 1814 but was later freed. He studied art in St. Petersburg and published his first collection of poems in 1840. However, he was arrested in 1847 for his involvement in a secret political society and exiled for 10 years, which ruined his health. Shevchenko made major contributions to Ukrainian literature and history through his poetry and art before his early death in 1861.

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    Taras

    Shevchenko

    Artist, poet, national bard of


    Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko was
    born on 9 March, 1814 in
    Moryntsi, Kiev gubernia. He
    was born a serf. When he was a
    teenager he became an orphan,
    and grew up in poverty. When
    he was 14, his owner,
    Engelhardt took him to serve as
    a houseboy. And Taras
    travelled with him to Vilnus and to St Petersburg. In Vilnus Taras
    for the first time heard different languages, Lithuanian, Russian and
    Polish and there he saw people whom their masters made free.
    When Engelhardt noticed the boy’s skiils in painting he apprenticed
    him to the painter Shiriayev for four years.

    At that time the young man met his compatriots Zoshchenko,


    Hrebinka, Hryhorovych, and Venetsianov, they showed his works to
    the famous Russian artist Karl Bryullov. Shevchenko’s paintings
    impressed Bryullov, and he decided to help him. Karl Bryullov
    painted a portrait of the Russian poet Zhukovsky and disposed it in
    a lottery. The money was used to buy Shevchenko’s freedom from
    Engelhardt in 1838.

    Shevchenko entered the Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg,


    there he became a student of Bryullov. Shevchenko was awarded
    three silver medals for his works and later he had become an
    Academician in engraving.

    Studying at the Academy T. Shevchenko understood that his main


    calling, his true passion was poetry. In 1840 he published his first

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    collection of poems “Kobzar”. In 1841 followed the epic poem
    “Haidamaky”, in 1844 the ballad “Hamalia”.

    When he graduated from the Academy, he became a member of


    the Kiev Archeographic Commission. In 1846 in Kiev he entered the
    secret Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood. It was a secret political
    society, in 1847 it was smashed, and Shevchenko was arrested and
    sent to the Orenburg special corps, he was deprived the right to
    draw and write. 10 years of exile ruined his health, and Shevchenko
    became seriously ill.

    When he was released in 1857 it was forbidden to him to live in


    Ukraine. He moved to St Petersburg but on March 10, 1861 the
    great poet died of heart disease. He was buried in St Petersburg,
    but his friends wanted to fulfill the poet’s wish that he had
    expressed in his “Testament” and they transferred his remains to
    the Chernecha Hill near Kanev, in Ukraine.

    Shevchenko’s works take an


    important place in Ukrainian
    literature and history. His
    literary output consists of the
    collection of poetry “Kobzar”,
    the drama “Nazar Stodolia”;
    two dramatic fragments; nine
    novelettes, a diary, and a
    autobiography in Russian; and
    over 250 letters.

    Shevchenko was an
    outstanding poet and a highly
    accomplished artist. There are
    835 works written by him,
    although 270 are known to
    have been lost. His collection
    also contains over 150
    portraits, 42 self-portraits.
    There are many landscapes, watercolors and etchings.

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