

Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, and the romantic poets, as well as many Russian, East European and world writers. In the library of Yevhen Hrebinka, he became familiar with anthologies of Ukrainian folklore and the works of I.

In 1840 he was again given the Silver Medal, this time for his first oil painting, The Beggar Boy Giving Bread to a Dog. In January, 1839, Shevchenko was accepted as a resident student at the Association for the Encouragement of Artists, and at the annual examinations at the Academy of Arts, Shevchenko was given the Silver Medal for a landscape. In 1838, Shevchenko was accepted into the Academy of Arts as an external student, practicing in the workshop of K. A committee of the Association for the Encouragement of Artists had examined drawings by Shevchenko and approved them. The release from serfdom was signed on April 22, 1838. The 2,500 rubles required were raised through a lottery in which the prize was a portrait of the poet, Zhukovsky, painted by Karl Bryullov. Self-portrait, 1845 Noted writers and artists bought Shevchenko out of serfdom. Shyryayev, with whom the lad experienced a hard school of professional training. In 1832, the lord "contracted" him to the master painter V. Shevchenko stayed with the lord's servants in Vilnius and was witness to the revolutionary events. The Polish rebellion for national liberation from Russia began in November, 1830, and Engelhardt left for the Russian capital, St. There he studied painting under an experienced craftsman. In the spring of 1829, Taras travelled with P. When he was 14 years old, he became a domestic servant to P.

A talent for drawing showed itself in the boy quite early. For some time little Taras, now an orphan, served as a houseboy and was in training as a servant. In 1823, Taras's mother died, and his father married for a second time. Taras's father was literate, and he sent his son to be educated as an apprentice to a deacon. Shevchenko, who was a witness of the Haidamak movement, had a significant influence on Taras. Taras Hryhorovich Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, artist and thinker, was born on March 9, 1814, in the village of Moryntsi in central Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire. My Destiny - an autobiographical essay by Taras Shevchenko
