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Originally Posted by Nestor
Most amazing thing is that from his youth everything was against him. He was the perenial loser who overcame insurmountable odds and became a winner
Born a serf.
Became an orphan.
Made to leave his homeland at the age of 13.
When an offer to buy him was made his owner gave a price so high that they thought that it would never happen, so they did a lottery for a donated painting and he was bought out of serfdom by the Czars family.
He then, a forer serf completed his studies at the St Peterburg Art Academy winning second place, but instead of using the money he won to continue his studies in Europe he went to buy out his sister from Serfdom.
For his poems he was forcibly drafted into the Russian Army for a 25 year stint and sent to Central Asia (where it took 6 months to get letters from Petersburg) and he was banned from holding a pensil or writting implement in his hand by the Tsar himself.
he overcame immense adversity and still left his mark on the Ukrainian nation.
The Russians have no-one of similar character.
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Regular Ukrainian BS. The last claim is esp. funny.
The truth is it were Russians who supported Shevchenko.
Btw, whu Shevchenko was writing his diary in Russian?
