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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (born Feb. 25 [March 9, New Style], 1814, Morintsy, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died Feb. 26 [March 10], 1861, St. Petersburg, Russia) was the foremost Ukrainian poet of the 19th century and a major figure of the Ukrainian national revival.
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public and political figure, was born on March 9, 1814, in the village of Moryntsi, Kyiv gubernia, in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine).
Shevchenko, Taras [Ševčenko], b 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Zvenyhorodka county, Kyiv gubernia, d 10 March 1861 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Ukraine’s national bard and famous artist. Born a serf, Shevchenko was orphaned when he was twelve and grew up in poverty and misery.
Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in village of Morintsy, Kiev Province in the year 1814. Naturally a painter, Shevchenko’s master sent him to an apprenticeship in St. Petersburg. At the age of 24, he bought his freedom by auctioning a painting of noted poet Vasily Zhukovsky.
Taras Shevchenko, the national bard of Ukraine, is a founder of modern Ukrainian literature and language. A champion of people’s freedom, with his poetry, he played a leading role in the formation of the Ukrainian national identity and consciousness.
The bicentennial of Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) coincided with a remar-kable political and social upheaval—a revolution and a national renewal that as of this writing is still ongoing and still under attack in Ukraine.1The core, and iconic, presence of Shevchenko in that process, and dramatically and symboli-
Jul 14, 2022 · Taras Shevchenko: The slave who became a symbol of Ukrainian independence. The life of a poet and painter whose works sustain Ukrainians through their darkest days. Show more.
Mar 9, 2015 · Oil painting by Taras Shevchenko 1842 (From Wikimedia Commons) Shevchenko was orphaned very early: his mother died when he was nine years old and his father when he was twelve. As an orphan and a serf in the estate of the rich land-owner Pavel Engelhardt he was separated from the rest of his family at the age of thirteen and taken to St Petersburg.
Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is also the most important symbol of modern Ukrainian nationhood. Born a serf in March 1814 on an estate just over 100 miles from Kyiv, Shevchenko demonstrated an early aptitude for art.
