Слайд 1Ivan Franko said:
“He had been a peasant's son and become
a lord in the kingdom of the rebellious spirit. He
had been a serf and become a titan in the realm of human culture. He had been a self-thought and indicated new, fresh and free ways to professors and scientifics.”
Слайд 6Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 in the village
of Moryntsi, Zvenigorodka county.
Слайд 7According to family legends, Taras' forefathers were cossacks who served
in the Zaporizhian Host and took part in liberation wars
and uprisings of Ukraine in 17th and 18th centuries.
Слайд 8Once young Taras went looking after "the iron pillars that
hold up the sky" and got lost in a field.
Chumaks who met the boy took him along and brought him to Kerelivka.
Слайд 9On April 2 in1825, his father died a serf in corvée.
Taras went to work for dyak Bohorsky who just arrived
from Kyiv in 1824.
Слайд 10Soon tired of enduring Bohorsky's mistreatment, Shevchenko ran away to
seek out a painting master in the surrounding villages.
Слайд 11In 1827 Shevchenko herded community sheep near his village. He
then meets Oksana Kovalenko, a childhood friend, whom Shevchenko mentions
in his works on multiple occasions. He dedicated to her the introduction to his poem "Mariana, the Nun".
Слайд 12When Taras turned 14, Vasiliy Engelgardt died and village Kyrylivka
became a property of his son, Pavel Engelgardt.Shevchenko was turned
into court service person of the new landlord at the Vilshana estates.
Слайд 13Pavel Engelgardt caught Shevchenko at night painting a portrait of
cossack Matvei Platov, a hero of the Patriotic War of
1812. He boxed the ears of the boy and ordered him whipped in the stables with rods.The next day the order was executed by a coachman Sydorko who whipped Shevchenko.
Слайд 15After moving from Vilno to Saint Petersburg in 1831, Engelgardt
took along Shevchenko. To have eventually a benefit for works
of art (among the nobility was a fashion to have their own "chamber artists"), he gave him to study for four years to the painter Vasiliy Shiriayev.
Слайд 17“ The Liberty of Ukrainian nation was appeared by him,
like a rise of the Sun, which was bathed in
the blood of Ukrainian enemies.“
Слайд 18Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to heroes!