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Taras Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist and ethnographer whose poetry collection Kobzar (1840) is regarded as the foundation of modern Ukrainian literature and, to some degree, of the modern Ukrainian language. Born a serf in Kiev Governorate under Russian rule, he was bought free in 1838 with 2,500 rubles raised by a lottery for Karl Briullov's portrait of Vasily Zhukovsky, and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. Arrested in 1847 with the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, he was exiled as a private to Orenburg and Orsk, forbidden to write or paint. Amnestied in 1857, he died in Saint Petersburg and was reburied at Kaniv.
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