Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in 1814 at Moryntsi, in the Kiev region, and was orphaned while still a child. A domestic servant to his master, who took him to Vilnius and then to Petersburg and placed him for four years as an apprentice with a painter, he was noticed by artists who bought his freedom in 1838 thanks to a lottery whose prize was a portrait painted by Bryullov. Arrested in 1847, he was sent as a common soldier to the Orenburg corps, with a ban, ordered by the tsar, on writing and painting. Returning after ten years, his health ruined, he died in Petersburg in 1861 and was buried near Kaniv, on the banks of the Dnieper.

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