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Poetry
Chapitres (38)
- The Night of Taras 0:00
- Topolia 5:27
- Hamaleia 13:27
- Khustina 20:04
- Naimechka 23:26
- Caucasus 47:52
- To the Circassians 51:38
- To the Rich and Great 54:24
- To the Master 54:52
- Again Addressing the Circassians 55:38
- To Jacques de Balmont 56:28
- To the Dead 57:34
- Lyric: From Day to Day, from Night to Night 1:08:03
- A Poem of Exile 1:09:45
- Memories of an Exile 1:14:03
- Hymn of Exile 1:14:58
- On the Eleventh Psalm 1:16:03
- Prayer: To Tsars and Kings 1:17:28
- Prayer: My Prayer for the Tsars 1:17:56
- Prayer: For Those That Have Done Wrong to Me 1:18:39
- Prayer: To Those of the Ever-Greedy Eyes 1:19:14
- Mighty Wind 1:20:09
- Hymn of the Nuns 1:21:59
- To the Goddess of Fame 1:22:48
- Iconoclasm 1:23:57
- My Testament 1:24:43
- The Water Fairy 1:25:53
- Lyric: Only Friend, Clear Evening Twilight 1:28:05
- The Reaper 1:29:28
- Lyric: I Care Not, Shall I See My Dear 1:30:40
- A Dream 1:31:56
- Kalina 1:38:34
- The Monk 1:41:19
- Drowsy the Waves 1:47:27
- See Fires Ablaze 1:48:03
- To the Makers of Sentimental Idyls 1:48:51
- The Bondwoman’s Dream 1:52:16
- Winter 1:53:45
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Taras Shevchenko is celebrated as the Ukrainian national poet and a founder of modern Ukrainian literature.
A child of serfs, Shevchenko received a religious education before being discovered as a painter, leading to his emancipation from serfdom in 1838. After a few years of activity as a painter and poet in the early 1840s, Shevchenko was arrested by Tsarist Russian authorities for his revolutionary poetry and association with the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, a secret society for the liberation of Ukraine. Subsequently, Shevchenko was ordered to be exiled to Siberia “under the strictest surveillance, without the right to write or paint” by Tsar Nicholas I himself. (He had earned the Tsar’s enmity by writing a poem mocking his wife’s appearance.)
Shevchenko returned to Ukraine following Nicholas I’s death, but died shortly thereafter. Shevchenko’s poetry continues to inspire those engaged in the struggle for Ukrainian independence, including the Euromaidan protests of the early 2010s and resistance against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.