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    Jul 12, 2022 2 minutes
    Taras Shevchenko

    aras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861) remains Ukraine’s most revered poet. He was also a renowned artist, playwright, and ethnographer of Ukrainian life as it existed under oppressive Imperial Russian rule. Of Cossack lineage, he was born a serf in the small village of Moryntsi, located at nearly the exact center of Ukraine, about 80 miles due south

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