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Taras Shevchenko: 198 years since the birth of the great poet
Anton Lunin | The Great Epoch
Monday, April 16, 2012
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Taras Shevchenko is a famous Ukrainian poet, novelist, artist and public figure of world renown.
He has always been a patriot of Ukraine, all his work is mainly dedicated to the Ukrainian people.
Taras Grigoryevich dreamed of liberating Ukrainians from social and political oppression.
March 9 marks the 198th anniversary of the birth of the playwright.
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko was born in 1814 in the village of Morintsy, Cherkasy region, in the family of a serf peasant Grigory Ivanovich Shevchenko.
Taras had 2 brothers and 4 sisters.
The young talent became an orphan early — his mother died when he was 9 years old, his father — when the boy turned 12 years old.
Shevchenko spent his childhood in the villages of Morintsy and Kirillovka, which belonged to his landowner, Lieutenant General Vasily Vasilyevich Engelhardt.
Taras Shevchenko showed interest in drawing and poetry since childhood.
At the age of 8, the boy enters the service of a local teacher, the sexton Pavel Ruban, where he learns to read and write.
At the age of 16, he becomes one of the servants of the landowner Engelhardt, first as a cook, then as a Cossack.
Noticing Taras ' passion for painting, the landowner decides to make him a court artist.
He gives his serf to the teacher of the Vilna University, the portrait painter Jan Rustem, for training.
Young Taras stayed in Vilna for 1.5 years.
At the beginning of 1831, the landowner moved to St. Petersburg, where Taras Shevchenko continued to study with the" pictorial affairs of the guild master " V. Shiryaev.
At Shiryaev's, Taras could draw statues in the Summer Garden and visit the Hermitage.
One day, Shevchenko, copying another sculpture on canvas, meets his countryman Ivan Soshenko, who in turn introduced him to K. Bryullov and V. Zhukovsky.
Recognition of the talent of the serf Taras Shevchenko by prominent figures of Russian culture played a decisive role in the matter of buying him out of captivity.
Taras Shevchenko: self portrait
In 1838, on April 22, Zhukovsky and Bryullov bought Taras Shevchenko from serfdom from Engelhardt for 2500 rubles, and at the age of 24 he received freedom.
The money for the release of Taras Grigoryevich was received from the sale at auction of a portrait of Zhukovsky painted by Bryullov.
Taras Shevchenko remained infinitely grateful to them for the release he received.
In 1838, immediately after being bought out of serfdom, Shevchenko entered the Academy of Arts, where he eagerly studied painting, drawing and the work of Russian and Ukrainian writers.
After graduating from the Academy of Arts in 1844, the writer returned to Ukraine, in Kiev he worked as an artist in the Kiev Temporary Commission for the consideration of old acts.
During the same period, Taras Grigoryevich got acquainted with Kostomarov, his political views were formed.
He joins the "Cyril and Methodius" society.
For an epigram on the Empress and the revolutionary mood of the poems in the collection "Three Years" in March 1847, the poet was arrested and sent into exile to the Orsk fortress, where he should serve as a soldier.
In addition, Nicholas I by his decree forbade Taras Shevchenko to write and draw, which was very depressing for him.
Taras Shevchenko with bohemia
As an artist, Taras Shevchenko was included in the expedition to explore the Aral Sea in 1848, where he actively painted landscapes and portraits with watercolors.
In 1851, the artist was also included in a geological expedition in the Karatau mountains.
In his spare time, during the period of exile, he wrote stories in Russian and created genre drawings.
Thanks to the petition of the vice president of the Academy of Arts, Count V. P. Tolstoy and his wife, in 1857 Taras Shevchenko returned from exile.
The poet lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
In 1859, he came to Ukraine, but is under the supervision of the police, permanent residence in Ukraine is prohibited for him.
Therefore, Shevchenko is returning to the capital.
Taras Shevchenko: self portrait
By this time, the poet's health was undermined by a ten year exile.
The writer meets his 47th birthday seriously ill (dropsy, heart problems, liver disorder).
During this period of time, Taras Grigoryevich became interested in engraving.
April 16, 1960 The Council of the Academy of Arts decided to appoint him an academician and "set a program for the title of academician in engraving on copper".
Already on September 2 of the same year.
Taras Grigoryevich died on March 10, 1861 in St. Petersburg He is buried first at the Smolensk Cemetery, but, according to the" Zapovit", on May 10 of the same year, his ashes were reburied in Ukraine over the Dnieper on Tarasova Mountain (Kanev).
Despite the short life path, Taras Shevchenko left a big imprint in literature and art.
Shevchenko wrote mainly in the genre of poems ("Gaydamaki", "Dream", "Katerina", etc.), ballads ("Causal"), stories ("Princess", "Musician").
Well known collections of his poems are "Kobzar" (early work), "Three years", "In the casemate" (written in prison).
Taras Shevchenko is the author of more than 1000 works of art, mainly landscapes, portraits, genre drawings.
He perfectly mastered the technique of writing paintings with pencil, pen, watercolor and oil.
Shevchenko was awarded the degree of academician in engraving.
An album of paintings by Taras Shevchenko "Picturesque Ukraine"has been released.
Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko is a genius of a planetary scale.
His works have been translated into most languages of the world.
In many countries outside of Ukraine, there are monuments to Shevchenko.
Parks, universities, boulevards, theaters and streets are named after the poet.
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