He traveled with his owner, Pavel Engelhardt, to St. The poems are intricately interwoven with Shevchenko's own life: born a serf, and orphaned at age 11, Shevchenko demonstrated artistic talent in his early teens, and his poems are full of references to orphans. In Kobzar, Shevchenko helped to create a modern Ukrainian language and a modern Ukrainian nationhood. The collection also includes numerous examples of Shevchenko's paintings and drawings and essays by Fedynsky, the literary scholar Michael Naydan, and the art critic Lesia Generaliuk. We owe a tremendous debt to Fedynsky, a Voice of America journalist, for making Shevchenko's "Kobzar" available in one volume. He published the first collection in 1840 and would subsequently publish two more in 1844 and 1860. This is the first English-language edition of all of Shevchenko's Kobzar poems. The unfolding drama in Ukraine makes the appearance of Peter Fedynsky's translation of Shevchenko's "Kobzar" all the more significant. According to The Kyiv Post, there are 1,256 statues of Shevchenko in Ukraine and 128 others scattered across the globe. In other cities, protesters gathered near the local Shevchenko statue, with large crowds congregating from Lviv to Lugansk.
In Ukraine's capital, protesters against the corrupt Yanukovych regime gathered in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square, and invoked the Ukrainian poet in various ways: Entrepreneurial artists carved a wooden sculpture near the square, posters celebrating his bicentennial reminded protestors of his upcoming birthday, and artists such as Oleg Shuplyak included him in dramatic images of Maidan's defenders. Shevchenko had already been mobilized before Sunday. That these celebrations occurred in the midst of the ongoing conflict with Russia over Crimea makes them all the more meaningful. In Kiev, Maidan activists laid a wreath at his statue, Crimean Tatars carried banners advocating peace, while Ukrainian politicians from the newly formed the government led crowds in singing the national anthem. Taras Shevchenko's birthday was Maand this past Sunday, Ukrainians celebrated his bicentennial.
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