Shevchenko in the world

Taras Shevchenko in the World

Shevchenko monument in Poltava

Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney speaks at the Shevchenko monument in Kiev

Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev

Memorial plaque on the column base: “In this building Taras Shevchenko worked as an assistant with the Arcehographic Commission in 1845-1847�

Shevchenko monument in Moscow, Russian Federation

Ukraine illustrated monthly.

No.7, 1987. Tr.A.B.

Shevchenko monument in Sofia, Bulgaria

Shevchenko monument in Baku, Azerbaijan

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.8, 1987. Tr.A.B.

Shevchenko monument in Lviv

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.3, 1988. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly.

No.11, 1998. Tr.A.B.

Shevchenko monument in Warsaw, Poland

Shevchenko monument in Rome, Italy Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.1, 1988. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.3 1989 Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.7, 1989. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.7, 1989. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly.

No.8, 1988. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.7, 1989. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.11, 1989. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.11, 1989. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.3, 1991. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.3, 1991. Tr.A.B.

Ukraine illustrated monthly. No.3, 1989. Tr.A.B.

“He was the son of a poor peasant, but he became a leader in the realm of the human spirit.

He was a serf, but he became a giant in the realm of human culture. He was self-educated, but to scholars and men of book learning he offered new, lucid and free paths. For ten years he bore the burden of Russian military servitude, but for Russia’s freedom he did more than ten victorious armies. Fate persecuted him throughout his life, but it failed to corrode his golden soul to rust, to turn his love for people to hatred and contempt, or to reduce his faith in God to faithlessness and pessimism. Fate spared him no sufferings, but neither was it niggardly in giving him joys that originated from the wholesome spring of life. Only upon his death did Fate give him the most valuable of its treasures – immortal glory and the joys which his works will again and again evoke in the hearts of millions.

This is what Taras Shevchenko was and is for us Ukrainians.”

Ivan Franko

Taras Shevchenko monument in Syracuse, N.Y., USA

Shevchenko monument in Pochaiv, Ternopil Region