T.H.SHEVCHENKO WITH HIS FRIENDS. Sepia and white on paper. 1851
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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko 1814-1861 the great Ukrainian poet, artist and thinker. Born into a serf family in the village of Moryntsi, in central Ukraine then a part of the Russian Empire, Shevchenko orphaned at the age of eleven. As a child, he exhibited talent as a painter and received training with painters in St Petersburg, Russia. He freed from serfdom by the intervention of several St Petersburg artists who paid 2500 roubles to gain his release in 1838. In the same year, Shevchenko accepted as a student into the Academy of Arts in the workshop of Bryullov. The next year he became a resident student at the Association for the Encouragement of Artists. At the annual examinations at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts, Shevchenko had given a Silver Medal for a landscape. In 1840 he again received the Silver Medal, this time for his first oil painting. He began writing poetry while he was a serf and in 1840 his first collection of poetry KOBZAR In 1841-1843 the epic poem HAIDAMAKY he awarded his third Silver Medal for the GYPSY FORTUNE TELLER also wrote plays, the tragedy MYKYTA HAYDAY and drama NAZAR STODOLYA. After these successes Shevchenko travelled to Ukraine where he saw the difficult conditions under which his compatriots lived. On April 5, 1847, Shevchenko arrested for being a member of Kyrylo-Methodius Society as it considered subversive. He sent to prison in St Petersburg. Because of the investigation into this group, he exiled as a private with the Russian military at Orenburg in the eastern part of the Russian Empire. Tsar Nicholas I confirming his sentence wrote Under the strictest surveillance, with a ban on writing and painting. It was not until 1857 that Shevchenko finally returned from exile after receiving a pardon, though he not permitted to return to St Petersburg but exiled to Nizhniy Novgorod. In May 1859 Shevchenko got permission to go to Ukraine. He intended to buy a plot of land not far from the village of Pekariv and settle in Ukraine. In