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Biography of the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko

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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was born on 9 March.

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He was the second child after his sister Kateryna.

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His parents were serf peasants.

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Taras`s family was owned by landlord Vasily Engelhardt.

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Taras started to take grammar classes at a local precentor (дяк) Sovhyr

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Soon Taras' hard working mother married again.

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At the age of eleven, Taras became an orphan (сирота)

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The daughter of Engelgardt moved to Saint Petersburg and took Shevchenko along with her.

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Engelgardt sent Shevchenko to painter Vasiliy Shiriayev.

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Shevchenko's friends bought his freedom on 5 May.

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There are many monuments to Shevchenko. They are only in Ukraine.

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