What is Taras Shevchenko?
{{Infobox writer | name = Taras Shevchenko<br>Тарас Шевченко | image = Taras Shevchenko selfportrait oil 1840 (crop).png | imagesize = | caption = Self-portrait, 1840 | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|Mar 9|1814|Feb 25}} | birth_place = Moryntsi, [[Kyiv]] [[Kyiv Governorate|Governorate]]<br />(today [[Cherkasy Oblast]]) | death_date = {{OldStyleDate|March 10|1861|February 26}} (age 47) | death_place = [[Saint Petersburg]] | occupation = [[Poet]], [[artist]] | nationality = [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | influenced = | signature = }} '''Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko''' ({{lang-uk|Тарас Григорович Шевченко}}; was born 25 February 1814 (9 March New Style), Moryntsi, and died February 26 1861 (March 10, New Style), [[St. Petersburg]]. He was a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] [[poet]], writer ([[playwright]], [[prose]] writer), artist ([[painter]], [[engraver]]), public and political figure.<ref>{{cite news|last=Ayres|first=Sabra|title=In divided Ukraine, inspiration from a poet of the underdog|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0309/In-divided-Ukraine-inspiration-from-a-poet-of-the-underdog-video|access-date=March 11, 2018|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|date=March 9, 2014}}</ref> Academician of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] (1860). ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shevchenko, Taras}} [[Category:1814 births]] [[Category:1861 deaths]] [[Category:Ukrainian writers]] [[Category:Ukrainian painters]] [[Category:Ukrainian poets]] [[Category:Playwrights]] [[Category:Cherkasy Oblast]] [[Category:19th-century artists]] {{bio-stub}}