Taras shevchenko biography in ukrainian studies

Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko (b.

Taras shevchenko biography in ukrainian studies today

Feb. 25 [March 9, New Style], 1814, Morintsy, Ukraine, –d. Feb. 26 [March 10], 1861, St. Petersburg, Russia), is the foremost Ukrainian poet, prose writer, painter and playwright of the 19th century. He was a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival.

Taras Shevchenko was a man of universal talent. All his life and creative work were dedicated to the people of Ukraine.

Taras shevchenko biography in ukrainian studies

The poet dreamed about the times when his country would be a free sovereign state, where the Ukrainian language, clture and history would be highly valued, and the people would be happy and free.

Born a serf, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St.

Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. His first collection of poems, entitled Kobzar (1840, "Kobzar"), expressed the historicism and the folkloristic interests of the Ukrainian Romantics, but his poetry soon moved away from nostalgia for Cossack life to a more sombre portrayal of Uk