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New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "2. Shevchenko and Sternberg" of the section "Taras Shevchenko from the time of his redemption from serfdom to the publication of his first "Kobzar"."
Finally, in the fall, Sternberg returned to Taras’s apartment. From the very first time they became like two brothers.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "1. Beginning of studies at the Academy" of the section "Taras Shevchenko from the time of his redemption from serfdom to the publication of his first "Kobzar"."
As if on wings, as Shevchenko himself admits, fate carried him from "the dirty attic of a brutal peasant-painter to the magnificent workshop of the greatest artist of our age."
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "8. Liberation from serfdom" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
Finally, the lottery was drawn, the money was collected, and for 2,500 rubles Engelhardt sold his right to the “revised soul”! 2,500 rubles broke the shackles of serfdom that bound Shevchenko’s hands and head…
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "7. Money for Shevchenko’s ransom" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
There was no other way to deal with this situation than to beg Engelhardt to release Shevchenko, either out of philanthropy or to take a ransom.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "6. Meeting educated people" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
How could all this good, clear, humane, and beautiful not have a life-giving, enchanting influence on the oppressed spirit of our kobzar! And it did!
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "5. Shevchenko and Soshenko" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
Having asked Taras about his bitter fate; having observed his great self-importance and even greater passion for painting, Soshenka could not help but sympathize with him.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "4. Shevchenko at Shiryaev’s workshop" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
Engelhardt, considering Shevchenko’s inability to be a lackey and his repeated requests, agreed and contracted him for four years to the St. Petersburg painter Shiryaev.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "3. Taras in Vilnius" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
Taras sat down at the table and began to draw a copy of General Platov. Our painter is watching intently: he is completely immersed in his work, with all his soul, with all his thoughts.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "2. Mr. Engelhardt’s servant" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
It was the custom of Polish lords to keep “room servants.” This custom, says Shevchenko, was invented by the civilizers of Trans-Dnipro Ukraine – the Poles.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "1. Taras in the kitchen" of the section "The bachelor’s age of Taras Shevchenko".
Cooking also has its own system and its own alphabet. This alphabet for Taras was – picking ashes from the stove, carrying firewood, taking out the slops.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "8. Review of Taras’s childhood" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
Now, knowing the conditions and circumstances under which the first 15 years of Shevchenko’s life passed, one be amazed at his unusually strong nature.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "7. Kitchen-boy in Vilshana" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
Dmytrenko did not give Taras permission to go to study with a painter, but ordered him to stay in Vilshana at kitchen and learn cooking from the cook.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "6. First love" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
One can guess (but only guess) that Oksana was the same girl who, while taking the flatbread, heard Taras crying near the herd.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "5. Taras’s earnings" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
Taras’s earnings as a clerk were very meager, and he had to pay for his clothes and shoes. Therefore, it is not surprising that the boy usually went around in a gray, leaky coat.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "4. Taras the Orphan" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
When Taras lost his mother and nanny, he was left without any care, and he himself had to take care of his younger sisters and brother.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "3. School" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
The St. Cyril’s Church School was an ordinary house near the church on the square; shabby, not plastered, the windows were broken; it differed from the neighboring houses only in that it was larger than them.
New study on Shevchenko
We continue publishing Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "2. The Shevchenko Family" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
Even when her mother was on serfdom, Katria, in addition to caring for the children, had to look after and take care of the women’s household, both in the house and in the yard.
New study on Shevchenko
We are starting to publish Oleksandr Konysky’s book "Taras Shevchenko-Hrushevsky" (1898). Today – the subsection "1. Nature of Zvenyhorod district" of the section "Childhood of Taras Shevchenko."
So, in this undulating and green corner of Zvenigorod district, there are two villages: Moryntsi and Kyrylivka, which the Ukrainian people will never forget.
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