Презентация на тему Тарас Шевченко

is the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language.

Shevchenko was born in the family of a serf in the village of Moryntsy in 1814. Young Taras became an orphan very early.

early teens and grew up in poverty and misery.

At the age of 14 he was taken by his owner, P. Engelhardt, to serve as a houseboy, and traveled extensively with him, first to Vilnius and then to St. Petersburg. Zhukovsky was disposed of in a lottery, the proceeds of which were used to buy Shevchenko's freedom from Engelhardt in 1838.

St Petersburg, there he became a student of Bryullov.
Studying

at the Academy T. Shevchenko understood that his main calling, his true passion was poetry. In 1840 he published his first collection of poems “Kobzar”. In 1841 followed the epic poem “Haydamaky”, in 1844 the ballad “Hamalia”.

literature and history.

accomplished artist. There are 835 works written by him,

although 270 are known to have been lost. His collection also contains over 150 portraits, 42 self-portraits. There are many landscapes, watercolours and etchings.

a lot about the country and learned to know

the heavy life of the Ukrainian serfs. In 1846 Shevchenko joined a revolutionary organisation — Cyril and Mefodiy Society, which aimed to liberate the serfs. He wrote several revolutionary poems directed against the tsarist despotism ("Dream", 1844, "The Caucasus", 1845, and his famous "Testament").

a soldier to Orsk fortress in Kazakhstan. Here, being

a soldier, he wrote several novels in Russian. He also painted several of his best pictures. In 1857 Shevchenko returned from the exile to St Petersburg. Here he published several of his masterpieces in which he criticised the tsarist regime and demanded liberty for serfs.

death was a great loss for Ukrainian literature and

liberation movement — A. Gertsen published a big article on Shevchenko's death in his magazine "Kolokol" in London. Shevchenko is the favourite author of millions of Ukrainians, a real people's poet. His works are translated into many languages.