Taras Shevchenko was born on 25 February 1814 in Moryntsi. A Ukrainian poet, painter and national figure, Shevchenko was born a serf in a village in central Ukraine and orphaned young. His artistic talent attracted the attention of Russian painters, who raised the money to buy his freedom in 1838. He studied at the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, and in 1840 published his first collection of poems, Kobzar, written in vernacular Ukrainian, which helped to shape the modern literary language and inspired national feeling. In 1847 he was arrested for his membership in a secret society and sent to military service in the Central Asian steppe for ten years, with a ban on writing and painting. He died in St Petersburg and was buried in Ukraine, near Kaniv.
Before and after
- 12 October 1813Treaty of Gulistan
- 1814Publication of The Star-Spangled Banner
- from 1814 to 1866Electorate of Hesse
- 14 January 1814Treaty of Kiel
- 25 February 1814Birth of Taras Shevchenko
- 10 April 1814Battle of Toulouse
- 30 May 1814Birth of Mikhail Bakunin
- 30 May 1814Treaty of Paris
- from 6 September 1814 to 11 September 1814Battle of Plattsburgh
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