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  Taras Shevchenko Biography - Taras Shevchenko Museum - the only Shevchenko Museum in the Americas
Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, artist and thinker, was born on March 9, 1814, in the village of Moryntsi in central Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.
In January, 1839, Shevchenko was accepted as a resident student at the Association for the Encouragement of Artists, and at the annual examinations at the Academy of Arts, Shevchenko was given the Silver Medal for a landscape.
One of the highlights of the political poetry of Shevchenko is the satirical poem Son (The Dream).
www.infoukes.com /shevchenkomuseum/bio.htm   (1826 words)

  
 Shevchenko, Taras
Shevchenko also kept a daily diary in Russian; it is of great value in interpreting his poetic works and an important source for studying his intellectual interests and development.
Yefremov was a leading Shevchenko scholar of the first quarter of the 20th century was.
Verves's on Shevchenko and Poland (1964); a two-volume dictionary of Shevchenko's vocabulary (1914); and a two-volume
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/S/H/ShevchenkoTaras.htm   (6349 words)

  
 America Hails Shevchenko (06/27/04)
The idea of a Shevchenko monument in Washington was often expressed in the decade of the '50s by numerous knowledgeable individuals and groups who sought to honor the poet with maximum effect.
In short, the Shevchenko statue is a living symbol of our national determination to share the fruits of freedom with the captive nation of Ukraine and, in the universalist spirit of Shevchenko's historic message, with the peoples of all the captive nations.
Shevchenko's statue in Washington mirrors with resplendent effect such lies and distortions on the part of colonialist Moscow and its colonial puppets.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/260422.shtml   (3174 words)

  
  Taras Shevchenko Monuments
It was Shevchenko's poetry that encouraged the Ukrainians, forced within the Soviet Union, to continue their struggles for freedom and in World War II encouraged and fostered the Ukrainian opposition to both fascism and communism.
It was Taras Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet and advocate of freedom, who for the first time called on the Ukrainians to hope and expect their own George Washington.
TARAS SHEVCHENKO, 1814-1861, Bard of Ukraine, the greatest Ukrainian Poet and Fighter for the independence of Ukraine and the freedom of all mankind, who under foreign Russian imperialist tyranny and colonial rule appealed for "The new and righteous law of Washington." His poems glorified the lost freedom and statehood of Ukraine.
www.artukraine.com /taras/monumentp2.htm   (910 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko was born March 9, 1814, in the village of Morintsy, Ukraine, to Hrehory and Katerina Shevchenko.
Taras was an orphan at a young age, his mother died when he was nine; his father two years later.
In 1843, when Shevchenko returned to Ukraine, he was greatly disturbed that his people were still under the heavy yoke of serfdom.
www.smokylake.com /history/culture/shevchenko.htm   (487 words)

  
 shevchenko
Although Shevchenko's poetic achievements were evident to his contemporaries in the early period of his creativity, it was not until the second period (1843P5) that his poetry assured him the stature of a national bard.
Shevchenko continued sporadically to reiterate his political convictions and to point to the enslavement of individuals (serfdom) and nations by the tsarist regime.
A new mythopoeic and psychoanalytic approach to the study of Shevchenko was proposed by G. Grabowicz in The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras %SevJcenko (1982; Ukrainian trans 1991) and by L. Pliushch in Ekzod Tarasa Shevchenka...
www.ualberta.ca /CIUS/eu/articles/art-shevch.htm   (6740 words)

  
 Literature
Taras Shevchenko and Panteleimon Kulish were the most prominent representatives of the Ukrainian Romantic movement—a movement which, to a large extent, crystallized modern Ukrainian national identity.
The introverted intellectual Kulish (Shevchenko’s close friend and editor of many of his works) was condemned by most of his populist contemporaries for his controversial works and elitist ideas.
Their movement, deeply influenced by the writings of Taras Shevchenko, Markiian Shashkevych, Panteleimon Kulish, Mykola Kostomarov, Marko Vovchok, and others, built on the traditions of the Ukrainian national revival of the 1830s and 1840s as represented by the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood in Kyiv, the Ruthenian Triad, and the Supreme Ruthenian Council in Lviv...
www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /literature.asp   (3654 words)

  
 Shevchenko, Taras - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Born a serf and orphaned early, Shevchenko passed a wretched childhood in the service of a brutal sexton.
He was apprenticed to icon and mural painters until he was bought and freed in 1838 by a group of intellectuals who recognized his talent.
Shevchenko became a prominent realist painter and his Ukrainian ballads, dealing with peasant life, were published in Russian.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-shevchen.html   (341 words)

  
 Background Report On Taras Shevchenko (06/27/04)
Taras Shevchenko, 19th Century Ukrainian poet and champion of liberty against Russian tyranny, will be memorialized by a statue to be unveiled in Washington, D.C., in the Spring of 1964 - the 150th anniversary of Shevchenko's birth.
Shevchenko a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln, was born in serfdom, won his freedom, then risked it in his fight for the freedom of others, regardless of color, creed or national origin.
American leaders of both political parties have praised Taras Shevchenko as a poet and as a champion of liberty.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/260431.shtml   (632 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko Museum - the only Shevchenko Museum in the Americas
The Taras H. Shevchenko Museum was founded by the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians, for the purpose of popularizing the life and work of the Bard of Ukraine, and the contribution of Canadians of Ukrainian descent to the social, economic and political life of Canada.
The Museum exhibits are dedicated to the art, life and literary legacy of the founder of the modern Ukrainian language Taras Shevchenko, who has twice been celebrated as a cultural leader of world acclaim by UNESCO.
While the paintings on display are periodically changed, their focus in on works by and about Taras Shevchenko.
www.infoukes.com /shevchenkomuseum   (333 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in the city of Kyiv and orphaned when he was twelve, leaving him to grow up in poverty.
In 1850 Shevchenko was transferred to the Novopetrovskoe fortress (now known as Fort Shevchenko), where he continued to secretly produce paintings, drawings, and writings in Russian.
Taras Shevchenko's work throughout his life laid the foundations for the existence of a fully functional modern Ukrainian literature.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/n/a/nar135/Taras.htm   (419 words)

  
 Ukrainian Canadian Foundation
The history of the Shevchenko Foundation is the story of a community which raised funds to celebrate the work of Taras Shevchenko by placing his monument on the grounds of the Manitoba Legislature in 1961 and used the remaining proceeds to support the ongoing work of the community.
The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko is a national, chartered philanthropic institution providing leadership by building and nurturing a permanent endowment fund dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Ukrainian Canadian cultural heritage and the advancement of a flourishing Ukrainian community for the enrichment of Canada.
The Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko strives to be recognized as Canada’s premier not-for- profit Foundation in a Canada which acknowledges the Ukrainian Canadian community as a fundamental component of Canadian society.
www.shevchenkofoundation.com /history.html   (459 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 1814   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 1814.
Taras Shevchenko was very talented in his native intelligence and his artistic talent.
Shevchenko talent was noticed from some compatriots who wanted to see him go to Imperial Academy of Fine Arts.
www.4j.lane.edu /~ague/culture/EUR/uk3.html   (296 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, in central Ukraine (then a part of the Russian Empire), Shevchenko was orphaned at the age of eleven.
On April 5, 1847, Shevchenko was arrested for being a member of this Society as it was considered subversive.
Shevchenko's remains were buried on May 8 on Chernecha Hora (Monk's Hill) (now Tarasova Hora or Taras' Hill) by the Dnipro River near Kaniv.
taras-shevchenko.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888   (814 words)

  
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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko is a famous Ukrainian poet, writer, painter and a major figure of Ukrainian national revival.
A serf by birth, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
When the secret Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius was suppressed in 1847, Shevchenko was punished by exile and compulsory military service for writing the poems "Dream," "Caucasus" and "Epistle," which satirized Russia's oppression of Ukraine and prophesied a revolution.
members.tripod.com /okernytskyy/shev.htm   (199 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Taras Shevchenko in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Taras Shevchenko in the Library of Congress: A Bibliography
Popularization of Shevchenko's works in various countries and his influence on world literature
www.loc.gov /rr/european/shevchenko.html   (68 words)

  
 (European Reading Room, Library of Congress)
Shevchenko movamy italiis'koiu, espans'koiu, portuhal's'koiu ta esperanto : Bibliohrafichnyi pokazhchyk.
Shevchenko, 1814-1861; bibliohrafichni materialy na dopomohu vyvchenniu zhyttia i tvorchosti.
Taras Shevchenko and West European Literature / by Jurij Bojko : translated from the Ukrainian by Victor Swoboda.
www.loc.gov /rr/european/shevworks3.html   (1970 words)

  
 National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv :: General Information :: Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko
Born a serf, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts.
When the secret Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius was suppressed in 1847, Shevchenko was punished by exile and compulsory military service for writing the poems " Dream," " Caucasus," and " Epistle," which satirized the oppression of Ukraine by Russia and prophesied a revolution.
Though forbidden to write or paint, Shevchenko clandestinely wrote a few lyric poems during the first years of his exile.
www.univ.kiev.ua /eng/geninf/tgs.html   (192 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko - Self Portraits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Taras Shevchenko painted many self-portraits and also depicted himself as a figure in a number of other works.
Shevchenko in the Uniform of the 3rd Company (3 P on the cap) of the Fifth Batalion.
This self portrait was given to Shevchenko's Polish friend in Orenburg, Arkadiusz Wegrzynowski.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~tarn/courses/429-sp.html   (324 words)

  
 Ukrainian Soccer Net ::: Interview with Andri Shevchenko ::: SportWeek
Shevchenko: The goal poet launches the attack on Inter in the derby of fear
Let's put the name there without preamble, without the anteroom of a reasoning, while he is waiting for questions about the championship on the arm of an armchair in the famous "room of the fire-place" in Milanello.
So Andri, Shevchenko goes down the arm and sits correctly, like if that name would have introduced a special guest, he leans his head on the armchair and starts producing these sounds at the ceiling, smiling:
www.ukrainiansoccer.net /interview/shevchenko-sw.html   (689 words)

  
 Shevchenko Scientific Society Homepage
The work of all Shevchenko Scientific Societies is coordinated by a quadrennially elected World Council with offices in Lviv, New York, and Toronto.
While the main function of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the United States lies in the areas of scholarship and education, at its headquarters in New York, it also provides for the general public: information for students on institutions of higher learning; facilities for neighborhood educational programs, and poetry readings.
The Shevchenko Scientific Society, USA, is exempt from Federal Income Tax under the provision of section 101(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.
www.shevchenko.org   (518 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Shevchenko, Taras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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Shevchenko, Taras SHEVCHENKO, TARAS [Shevchenko, Taras], 1814-61, Ukrainian poet and artist.
He was apprenticed to icon and mural painters until he was bought and freed in 1838 by a group of intellectuals who
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11811.html   (371 words)

  
 The Ukrainian Language & Literature Program at the University of Alberta
EDMONTON - The Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.SA.) and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press have announced the publication and immediate availability of an invaluable research tool for scholars and students of the poetic legacy of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko.
It is a complete alphabetical index of all the words contained in Shevchenko's Ukrainian- and Russian-language poetry, showing both the places where each word may be found and its immediate textual setting.
This four-volume edition of "A Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko" was jointly published by the Shevchenko Scientific Society (U.S.A.) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /~ukraina/Concordance.html   (447 words)

  
 Taras Shevchenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Engelhardt noticed Shevchenko's artistic talent, and in Saint Petersburg he apprenticed him to the painter V.
The town of Vita, Manitoba was originally named Shevchenko in his honor.
The concert was recorded in the Ukrainian National Home in New York City, and featured the famous self-portrait (as shown above) on its cover.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taras_Shevchenko   (1301 words)

  
 Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University high-performance computing cluster
High-performance computing cluster of Information and Computer Center of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, is a part of "Kyiv University Network" project.
In November 1999 the first computing cluster that consisted of four workstations was created at Information and Computer Center of National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv.
In the press-release in honour of this event it is emphesized that Cluster Computing Laboratory of KNU becomes the largest in Ukraine and now it is the essential resource for the academic and scientific establishments of the country.
www.cluster.kiev.ua /eng   (589 words)

  
 Statue / monument of Taras Shevchenko in Washington DC by Sculptor Leo Mol
Statue / monument of Taras Shevchenko in Washington DC by Sculptor Leo Mol
Shevchenko (1814-1861) was a Ukrainian poet, born a serf, who was sentenced to prison for his writings, where he died after four years' confinement.
Not particularly well-known in the United States, he seems to have been selected on the basis of one line in which he expresses the wish that the Ukraine had a George Washington.
www.kittytours.org /thatman2/search.asp?subject=48   (117 words)

  
 CIUS Press: Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko by Oleh S. Ilnytzkyj and George Hawrysch
This magnificent four-volume publication of more than 3,200 pages is a complete alphabetical index of the words contained in Shevchenko's Ukrainian- and Russian-language poetry, showing both the places where each word may be found and its immediate textual setting.
A Concordance to the Poetic Works of Taras Shevchenko, is published jointly by the Shevchenko Scientific Society (USA) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, is an invaluable research tool for scholars and students of the legacy of Ukraine's national poet, Taras Shevchenko.
See Taras Shevchenko and Kobzar in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
www.utoronto.ca /cius/publications/books/concordance.htm   (452 words)

  
 cruisemates.com :: View topic - "Taras Shevchenko" Photo Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
on the sad occasion of the M/S "Taras Shevchenko's" beaching at the Chittagong, Bangladesh, scrapyard last month, I have just published a Photo Gallery with more than 80 mostly interior pictures of this Ukrainian ship.
"Taras Shevchenko" was built as a sister ship to the "Aleksandr Pushkin", better known under her present name: Orient Lines' "Marco Polo".
Ultimately, her owners decided to sell her for scrap in order to regain at least some of the recent expenses.
www.cruisemates.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=2924859   (237 words)

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