Taras Shevchenko (1814–1861)

Painter, poet, anthropologist, artist · Russian Empire · Moryntsi – Saint Petersburg

Also known as: Taras Schewtschenko, Т. Ш., К. Дармограй, Кобзарь Дармограй

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Ukraine, 1814–1861. Born a serf and freed at twenty-four, he is Ukraine's national poet and the father of its modern literature; also a painter, and a martyr to the Ukrainian cause, exiled by the tsar and forbidden to write. 'Zapovit' ('Testament') is his most-recited poem. His work is in the public domain.