Kobzar book taras shevchenko biography

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, and public and political figure, was born on March 9, , in the village of Moryntsi, Kyiv gubernia, in the Russian Empire (today Ukraine).

His parents, Kateryna and Hryhoriy, were serfs on the land of Vasiliy Engelhardt.

His grandfather, who had witnessed peasant uprisings, had a significant influence on the young boy. Taras's literate father, sent his son to apprentice with, and be educated by, a deacon.

Kobzar book taras shevchenko biography

In , his mother died, followed by his father in For some time, little Taras served as a houseboy and was already showing a talent for drawing. At fourteen, he became a domestic servant to Pavlo Engelhardt who had inherited the estate from his father, Vasiliy.

In the spring of , Taras travelled with Pavlo Engelhardt to Vilnius, Lithuania.

When the Polish rebellion for national liberation from Russia began in November , Engelhardt left for the Russian capital, St. Petersburg. Shevchenko remai