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Taras Shevchenko

1814 - 1861

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Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Ukrainian: Тарас Григорович Шевченко; Russian: Тарас Григорьевич Шевченко, romanized: Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose (nine novellas, a diary, and his autobiography) in Russian, making him one of many iconic figures which belong to several Slavic language cultures. The town of Aktau in Kazakhstan was named after Shevchenko in the period of Soviet authority. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Taras Shevchenko is the 185th most popular writer (down from 175th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 15th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Taras Shevchenko is most famous for his poetry.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Taras Shevchenko ranks 185 out of 7,302. Before him are Nizami Ganjavi, Stéphane Mallarmé, Fernando Pessoa, Al-Masudi, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Catullus. After him are Murasaki Shikibu, Lope de Vega, John Steinbeck, Adam Mickiewicz, Sigrid Undset, and Halldór Laxness.

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Among people born in 1814, Taras Shevchenko ranks 3. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin, and Jean-François Millet. After him are Mikhail Lermontov, Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, Edwin Stanton, Hong Xiuquan, and Henri Nestlé. Among people deceased in 1861, Taras Shevchenko ranks 5. Before him are Albert, Prince Consort, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Abdulmejid I, and Frederick William IV of Prussia. After him are Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, Xianfeng Emperor, Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Pedro V of Portugal, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Pavel Jozef Šafárik, and Lola Montez.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko ranks 17 out of 1,365. Before him are Stepan Bandera (1909), Volodymyr Zelensky (1978), Kazimir Malevich (1879), Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595), Mikhail Bulgakov (1891), and Ilya Repin (1844). After him are Hafsa Sultan (1479), Joseph Conrad (1857), Helena Blavatsky (1831), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), and Viktor Yushchenko (1954).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko ranks 3. Before him are Nikolai Gogol (1809), and Mikhail Bulgakov (1891). After him are Joseph Conrad (1857), Svetlana Alexievich (1948), Stanisław Lem (1921), Anna Akhmatova (1889), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Joseph Roth (1894), Sholem Aleichem (1859), Lesya Ukrainka (1871), and Isaac Babel (1894).

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