¿Qué es el Kobzar de Tarás Shevchenko, de 1840?

Shevchenko's Kobzar

«Кобзар» Шевченка

1840. Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in 1814.

Dónde: Ucrania

Qué pasó

Taras Shevchenko was born a serf in 1814. In St Petersburg artists noticed his talent, and in 1838 his freedom was bought with money raised by a lottery for a portrait by Karl Briullov. In 1840 his first book of poems, the Kobzar, came out, and it changed Ukrainian literature. For his poems he was sent as a soldier to the far south-east of the empire, beyond Orenburg, for ten years. He died in 1861, aged 47, and was buried at Kaniv on the Dnipro, as he had asked in his poem Zapovit.

Dilo

У 1840 році вийшов «Кобзар» Тараса Шевченка.

In 1840 Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar came out.

Para leer más

• Тарас Шевченко — Taras Shevchenko
• Викуп Шевченка — Buying Shevchenko's Freedom
• Садок вишневий коло хати — The Cherry Orchard by the House
• «Катерина» Шевченка — Shevchenko's "Kateryna"

• Antes: Kharkiv University opens
• Después: The Valuev circular and the Ems decree