Ukrainian writer Shevchenko Biography
Our father is crying over the children and we - the puppies did not take pain and longing and died in the farm laborers! .. And we crept between people like mouse. I went to school to carry water to schoolchildren. And the brothers in the farm laborers went to the soldiers, they did not overturn. And the sisters! Sisters, woe to you, my doves are young! And for whom do you live?
Alien, in servants, sisters grew up in the servants, and die! The translation of A. He quickly learned to read and write, and also began to draw - he had a great talent for drawing. Subsequently, an inexhaustible desire to learn how to draw Taras moved to search for teacher-artist. To do this, he had to walk “in search” from one village to another. At Engelhardt, “The landowner, Pavel Vasilievich Engelhardt, who had just inherited the property of his side father, needed a quick boy, and a ragged schoolboy-tramp fell directly into a tick jacket, in the same charter and finally into indoor Cossacks.
But later - in the spring of the year - together with the string, Pan moves to the city of Vilna, where it secretly redraws the paintings, and also comprehends the Polish language and literature. In Vilna Shevchenko is sent to study drawing at the workshop of Jan Rustem. Having stayed in Vilna a little over a year, the landowner Shevchenko moves to St.
Petersburg, where he was transferred, along with his servants. Pan, noticing Taras's ability to draw, decided to give it to the artel of the artist-decorator Vasily Shiryaev for four years. Together with him, Shevchenko takes part in the painting of the Bolshoi Theater as an apprentice. In St. Petersburg, Shevchenko meets his fellow countryman Ivan Soshenko. Here he met K. Bryullov, V.
Zhukovsky, V. Grigorovich, A. Venetinov, A. Mokritsky, - people who played a key role in the further liberation of the poet from serfdom. I also loved to meet the sunrise on the Trinity Bridge in the summer. Zhukovsky, having previously recognized the price from the landowner, asked K. Bryullov to write him, V. Zhukovsky, a portrait for the imperial surname in order to play him into a lottery in the royal family.
The Great Bryullov willingly agreed. The portrait is written. Zhukovsky, with the help of Count M. Velgorsky, was arranged by the lottery in rubles by banknotes, and Freedom T. was purchased at this price. Shevchenko in the year, April, I am from a dirty attic, I, an insignificant lust, flew on the wings into the magic halls of the Academy of Arts. He begins learning under the leadership of Karl Bryullov, uses his rich library.
He became an excellent portraitist and great master of watercolor drawing; For successes in study, he receives three silver medals from the Academy: in the year for the picture “Boy-Ready Boy, gives bread to the dog”, for the painting “Gypsy-Gadalka”. The first drawing, for which Taras Grigoryevich received a silver medal in the year, did not reach us. Unlike other students of the Academy, he depicts people from the people in his works: a serf girl, children, a gypsy and others, trying to attract the attention of society to the oppressed people.
He also gets acquainted with the outstanding works of Western European literature, studies the French language - all this largely offers the political and cultural level of the poet. Shevchenko’s poetry has incorporated the life -giving juices of Ukrainian folklore, the strength, wealth and expressiveness of the Ukrainian language. Novichenko in Ukraine is a sweet “during my stay and now I took to publish under the name“ Picturesque Klena ”.
The composition of the publication includes objects as follows: 1st-types, 2nd-folk life and 3rd-history. He visits the villages and cities, communicates with the people, writes a number of studies and sketches. In early June, he visits the Kyiv and the Kyiv province, meets students and intelligentsia, studies historical and cultural attractions, records folk songs and traditions, sketches landscapes and ancient architecture.
At the end of summer, Taras travels to the south of Ukraine. Later - in October - settles in the jagotine in the outbuilding of the estate of Prince Nikolai Repnin. At the end of February, Shevchenko returns to St. Petersburg, where he continues to study at the Academy of Arts. After graduating from the Academy of Arts in the year, Shevchenko receives a document for the right to travel to Ukraine, where he leaves at the end of March.
In December, the great poet in Pereyaslav writes his famous work “The Testament of the Zaput”, where he passionately calls the people to the armed uprising. Tikhonov in May Taras Shevchenko meets historian Nikolai Kostomarov, one of the organizers of the Cyril-Methodius fraternity, and in December begins to attend meetings where he reads his revolutionary poetry members.
The fraternists and employees of the Kyiv and Kharkov universities were members of the brotherhood. The leading role among them, except for Kostomarov and Shevchenko, was played by G. Andruzsky, V. Belozersky, N. Gulak, P. August-language, referring to the nazon to wild Geta, did not forbid him to write and draw. And the Christian Nikolai forbade me to do either.
Both executioners. But one of them is an executioner-Christian! He held his service in the Orsk fortress. Despite strict supervision, Shevchenko painted a self -portrait, continued to write poetry that he placed in small “frozen books”.Almost the entire garrison came out to meet us. Pale, non -failure, like prisoners, faces. I was scared. The task of the expedition was to study and scientifically describe the Aral Sea.
On the expedition, Shevchenko painted a number of landscape drawings and continued work on literary works. In November, after a heavy crossing through the desert steppes, the poet arrived in Orenburg. Everything is taken away from him that only life is red: family, homeland, freedom, in a word, everything. In Novopetrovsk, he stayed for long 7 years, until his friends got from the government the liberation of Taras Grigoryevich from exile.
During his service in exile, he took part in an expedition to the mountains of Karatau, where, despite the ban, he created about a hundred drawings. In the year, Taras Shevchenko began to write prose in Russian. Later, he was facilitated by the conditions of exile, thanks to friendly relations with the new commandant of the fortification. In the year, he began correspondence with the artist, vice president of the Academy of Arts Fedor Tolstoy regarding the petition for his liberation.
The return from the exile on August 2 on the fishing boat Taras Shevchenko left the Novopetrovsk fortification to Astrakhan. Later on the steamer went to Nizhny Novgorod. For Shevchenko, secret police supervision was installed. In the year he leaves for Moscow, and from there to St. Petersburg. The peaceful “after a ten-year exile, Shevchenko finally returned to Petersburg, broken by his body, but not in the spirit of his terrible years, his muse did not stop Franco’s new edition of Kobzar from January of the year“ Primer South Russian ”in January of the year published by new poetry the publication of Kobzar.
In early September, a decree of the Council of the Academy of Arts on the assignment of Shevchenko was issued by Academician of engraving. In January, the “Primer of the South Russian” was printed, compiled by Taras Grigoryevich. Is there freedom? Is there a manifesto? With a deep breath, he said: “So, no? .. When will it be?!” The Konissky is seriously ill at the end of the year Taras Shevchenko continues to work, correspond with friends, draws.
Taras Grigorievich passed away on February 26, the challa immodest contribution of Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko to world culture is revered not only in Ukraine, but also beyond: there are more monuments of Shevchenko around the world, his name is called cities, educational institutions, many films are shot in his honor and plays are placed. Shevchenko forever became an integral part of the history and culture of the Ukrainian people.
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