The famous Ukrainian poet Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko was born on February 25, 1814 in the village of Morintsy, Zvenigorod district, Kyiv province, into the family of a serf peasant, landowner Engelhardt. Two years after his birth, Shevchenko’s parents moved to the village of Kirilovka, where Taras spent his entire childhood.
Unfortunately, his mother died in 1823. In the same year, his father married a second time to a widow who had three children. The stepmother treated Taras quite harshly.
Until the age of 9, Taras was left to his own devices. However, he had elder sister Catherine, with whom he supported warm relations. However, Catherine soon got married. In 1825, when Taras was 12 years old, his father also died. From that time on, the difficult, nomadic life of a street child began. First he was sent to a sexton teacher, then to apprenticeship with neighboring painters. For some time, Shevchenko was a sheep shepherd, then served as a driver for a local priest.
At the school of the sexton teacher, Taras learned to read and write, and from the painters he became acquainted with basic drawing techniques.
At the age of sixteen, he became one of the servants of the landowner Engelhardt - first as a cook, then as a Cossack. Taras’s duty was to sit in the hallway, waiting for the landowner to call him and order him to pick up the pipe. Taras escaped boredom by singing and drawing. And although he often got it for this, he did not stop his work. He also painted during Engelhardt’s travels to Vilnius and Warsaw.
The landowner saw Taras's real talent as an artist and, while living in Warsaw at that time, sent the talented serf to be trained by the portrait painter Lampe. Engelhardt's thought was simple: someday, when Shevchenko becomes a real artist, he himself will profit from this.
However, in 1831 the Polish uprising began, and Engelhardt was forced to move from Warsaw to St. Petersburg. There the landowner sent Taras to apprenticeship to the house artist Shiryaev.
So four years passed. Luck, apparently, favored Shevchenko. Once upon a time in Summer Garden he met his fellow countryman, artist Ivan Soshenko. He brought him together with another fellow countryman, the poet Evgeniy Grebinka, after which the two of them introduced Shevchenko to the secretary of the Academy of Arts Vasily Grigorovich, with famous artists Alexei Venetsianov and Karl Bryullov, as well as with the greatest Russian poet and teacher of the royal children Vasily Zhukovsky.
All these people helped the talented serf. Bryullov painted a portrait of Zhukovsky, which was played in a lottery (at the same time most bought lots royal family, based on respect for the personality of the poet Zhukovsky). For the money received - 2500 rubles - Taras was bought out. This happened on April 22, 1838. In the same year, Shevchenko was admitted to the Academy of Arts, after which (in February 1847) he was approved for the position of drawing teacher at Kyiv University.
These years (1840 - 1847) became the best in Shevchenko's life. During this period his poetic talent flourished. So, in 1840, a small collection of his poems called “Kobzar” was published, and in 1842 his largest work, “Haydamaki,” appeared. In the first half of the 1840s, “Perebednya”, “Topolya”, “Katerina”, “Naimychka”, “Khustochka” also appeared. In 1843, Shevchenko received the degree of free artist.
In 1842, while traveling around Little Russia, he met Princess Repnina, a kind and intelligent woman, who later, during Shevchenko’s exile, took a warm part in him. However, the poet was not destined to live and prosper and make good money. In 1846, he joined the secret Cyril and Methodius Society, which was then being formed in Kyiv. A year later, members of the society were arrested. Shevchenko suffered most of all - for his poem "The Dream", in which he ridiculed the imperial family, he was sent as a private to the Orenburg separate corps with a special royal resolution banning writing and drawing.
The Orsk fortress, where Shevchenko first ended up, was then a sad and deserted outback. “It’s rare,” the poet wrote, “one can come across such a characterless area... The location is sad, monotonous, skinny rivers Ural and Or, naked gray mountains and the endless Kyrgyz steppe...” “All my previous sufferings,” Shevchenko wrote in another letter , - in comparison with the real ones there were children's tears. Bitter, unbearably bitter."
Most of all, Shevchenko was burdened by the ban on writing and drawing, especially the latter. Not knowing Gogol personally, the poet decided to write to him “by the right of Little Russian virsheplath.” “Now, like someone falling into an abyss,” he wrote, “I am ready to grab hold of everything. Hopelessness is terrible! So terrible that only Christian philosophy can fight it."
Sent by Shevchenko touching letter and Zhukovsky with a request to obtain only one favor for him - the right to draw. Others also worked for him in this sense, but it turned out to be impossible to help Shevchenko - the ban on drawing was not lifted from him until his release.
Some consolation was given to him by participation in an expedition to study the Aral Sea in 1848 and 1849 - when, thanks to the humane attitude towards the exile of General Obruchev and especially Lieutenant Butakov, he was allowed to sketch views of the Aral coast.
However, this soon became known in St. Petersburg. Obruchev and Butakov received a reprimand, and Shevchenko was exiled to a new deserted slum - Novopetrovskoye, with a repeat ban on drawing. There the exiled poet was from October 17, 1850 to August 2, 1857 - until his liberation.
The first three years were very difficult. Then came various reliefs, thanks to the kindness of Commandant Uskov and his wife, who fell in love with Shevchenko for his gentle character. Unable to draw, the poet took up sculpting and tried photography, which, however, was expensive at that time.
In Novopetrovskoe, Shevchenko wrote several stories in Russian - “Princess”, “Artist”, “Twins” (later published by “Kievskaya Starina”).
Finally, in 1857, thanks to persistent petitions for him by the vice-president of the Academy of Arts, Count F.P. Tolstoy and his wife, Countess A.I. Tolstoy, Shevchenko was released. He returned to St. Petersburg and here, in freedom, indulged in poetry and art.
Two years later, the poet visited his homeland. Then he had the idea to buy himself an estate above the Dnieper. Has been selected a nice place near Kanev, the acquisition of which Shevchenko worked hard to acquire. However, he never had the chance to settle here - difficult years The exiles weakened the poet's body, and at the end of February 1861 he died.

Nowadays, many online express the opinion that Ukrainian Language is an artificially created language. The message of its authors is clear. After all, they had not even heard about the national liberation movement in Ukraine. But!

The main thing is not in the language or even in the national liberation movement of Ukrainians, the main thing is that our “well-wishers” use both of them in order to quarrel between fraternal peoples. Even this expression itself is understood pervertedly. After all, if there are brothers who are not twins, and Russians and Ukrainians do not reach complete similarity in their identity, then one of them is older, the other is younger. It is clear that he is older because he was born earlier, and not because his muscles are stronger.

Therefore, if we are Great Russians, we want good for ourselves, then we should not distort the obvious, and no matter how unpleasant it is for many to hear, we must understand that the Ukrainian people are ancient and therefore they are older. Accordingly, the Russian language was born from the Ukrainian language, and talking about the unnatural origin of the language means distorting the facts. And what does politics lead to? double standards“Now it is clear to both Russians and Ukrainians.

Why is it possible to pass off the truth of one as truth? Yes, because it is hidden from those who are not curious and lazy. So in the case of our languages, everything seems to be clear from textbooks, at least from those that we were taught 55 years ago. In "Russian Literature" for high school then they wrote that the Russian language in its modern literary form appeared thanks to the efforts of a number of Russian geniuses; they, starting with A.S. Pushkin, chose everything that was significant and truly great in it and in their works left us the greatest value of our language.

The Ukrainian literary language began to take shape a little later than Russian and, having appeared in the works of Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko, was never able to achieve the same depth, volume and greatness as Russian. I note we're talking about O literary form language. But who here in LJ uses it now? The slang that is accepted in modern Russian society differs from the literary Russian language, like earth from heaven.

The same spoken language, called Mova, is also found in Ukraine. From what has been said, it is clear that neither spoken Russian nor language are literary languages our peoples and talk about them as official languages, means “to cast a shadow on a clear day.” This is what some are doing now (and much earlier) out of stupidity and most out of mischief, out of a desire to annoy both Russians and Ukrainians.

Therefore, in order not to be distracted by particulars, I will give a convincing fact. How the language of one people differs from the language of other peoples is that it contains concepts and ideas that others do not have. So let’s take Taras Shevchenko’s Ukrainian language and our literary one and try to translate into the second language the poem “The Great Kobzar” written in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Many people are too lazy to do this, and therefore, what I stole from the Internet and highlighted in a different font may not be read.

From this “literary dispute” it is clearly clear that two centuries ago our languages ​​were so different that interlinear translation keeping all the details from one to the other was impossible.

But the article is not about the fact that the language and the Russian language, they are different and quite ancient ways of communication between people within their own people. The fact is that neither literary nor spoken languages and even they are both in place, this is not the language of the people!

In addition to them, what needs to be called, for example, “Russian language” includes many other elements, for example scientific language or the language of technicians, or the languages ​​of other specialists. And, even this is not all, there are other elements without which the Russian language is not complete. This is where it turns out that the Ukrainian language, many elements inherent in the Russian language, it simply does not have. No, I won’t talk about the reasons for this, I’ll just note a fact that speaks most clearly about the circumstance noted here.

The political language of Ukrainian politicians and diplomats has emerged only in the last two decades and does not yet have the same power as the political language of Russians. So we hear Russian speech from the most hardened Ukrainophiles, when they need to explain themselves quickly, briefly and clearly!

No, I don’t want to offend anyone, I’m simply stating the fact that the modern Ukrainian language is imperfect, which does not allow specialists of different professions to communicate in it. They use Russian for this. Disputants will notice to me that the languages ​​of professionals are common to everyone, so let them argue. Or better yet, try listening to what the professionals say different nations. For example, Russians, Ukrainians and British. This is where it turns out that Russians and Ukrainians understand each other without problems, and with English speaking people they have to strain their brains for this.

I told all this because language problems Only linguists can decide, while others take them on when they intend to spoil things. Who will win, Russians to Ukrainians or vice versa?

No, I note that the dictionaries, including those of the spoken Russian language, were not written by Russians or even Ukrainians. The same is true in Ukraine. So, how can Russians or Ukrainians, who do not have the appropriate education, sort out all the mess that others have prepared for them, who have been muddying the waters for centuries?

No, I’m not talking about conspiracy theories. A picture from 1992 of the last century just stands out in my eyes. This is not the first time I’ve talked about it, but I’ll have to repeat it.

When the USSR collapsed, the borders collapsed and crooks from all over the world rushed into my country without any visas or passports. So one of them told me, mistaking me for something other than who I really am. “We have been waiting for such situations for decades, and sometimes centuries, but no, we are not waiting, we are preparing.”

Maybe he was bragging, that’s on his conscience, but there is no doubt that there are organizations (not the state or state) that “muddy the waters and catch fish in it.” Now many here are talking about a US conspiracy, I’m writing about Rezdel, but!

Why did all these actions by states become possible? Only because there are people who don’t care what language you speak, the main thing for them is what you have, and they do everything to take it away.

We, here on LiveJournal, quarrel and scream, helping scoundrels solve their problems at the expense of our well-being. And it doesn’t matter at all in what language we harm ourselves!