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Taras Shevchenko was born on March 9 in
the village of Moryntsi, Zvenigorodka county.
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According 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.
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Once 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.
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On April 2 in1825, his father died a serf
in corvée. Taras went to work for dyak Bohorsky
who just arrived from Kyiv in 1824.
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Soon tired of enduring Bohorsky's mistreatment, Shevchenko ran
away to seek out a painting master in the
surrounding villages.
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In 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".
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When 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.
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Pavel 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.
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After 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.
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“ The Liberty of Ukrainian nation was appeared
by him, like a rise of the Sun, which
was bathed in the blood of Ukrainian enemies.“