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Description:SIX LYRICS FROM THE RUTHENIAN BY TARAS SHEVCHENKO (RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY E. L. VOYNICH IN 1911). I (Written shortly before his arrest.)II (Written the first year in the disciplinary brigade.)III (Written in the disciplinary brigade, first or second year.)IV (Written in the disciplinary brigade, first or second year.)V (So far as is known, the last thing written in the disciplinary brigade, third year. There are no verses and few letters for the next seven years.)VI (Written in exile in Russia about a month before his death.) E. L. VOYNICH, in his essay, says: "At the beginning of 1847 he was appointed Art Lecturer to Kiev University. Immediately afterwards he, his friend the historian Kostomarov and many other persons were arrested on a charge of belonging to a seditious body called " The Brotherhood of SS. Cyril and Methodius." Shevchenko denied membership, and the police, on investigation, withdrew the charge. As for the society, which Kostomarov had started among the university students, it was seditious to the extent of advocating religious liberty, popular education, the abolition of serfdom, of corporal punishment and of the death penalty, and the ultimate federation of all Slavonic peoples; but the official police report acquits it of any more "revolutionary aims" than "to found schools and to publish books for the poor." Shevchenko, the report continues, though not a member of the society, was "actuated by his own vicious tendencies." He had "composed in the Little Russian tongue verses of a most abominable character," which might set people dreaming; and had shown "boundless impudence." . . . . " The extraordinary respect felt by all Ukrainian Slavists both for Shevchenko personally and for his poems," and his "reputation as a famous Little Russian writer" might make his verses "doubly harmful and dangerous, " so he "must be regarded as one of the more important offenders." And he adds presently, "In 1850 an officer sent in a report that private Shevchenko was writing verses, painting portraits and wearing civilian dress. A search was made and he was found in the possession of private letters, a Bible, Shakespeare, the Imitation of Christ, Lermontov, Pushkin and other Russian classics, a box of paints, portfolios for drawings, and civilian clothing. A report was sent to the Emperor Nicholas, by whose personal wish the writing and drawing had been forbidden. He replied commanding that the offender should be kept under strict arrest while his immediate superiors "answered before the law" for their slackness in permitting him to draw. " "As for his unrealized personal ambitions, he has given us a list of them. "I asked such little things of God," one of the lyrics says : a hut by the Dnieper, where he could live with "my poor girl," Oxana, and sing folk-songs in the evening after the day's work; a bit of land to cultivate, a patch of garden ground, two poplar trees of his own ; and to die by the Dnieper and be buried on " Such a tiny little hill . . ."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian. To get started finding Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: SIX LYRICS FROM THE RUTHENIAN BY TARAS SHEVCHENKO (RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY E. L. VOYNICH IN 1911). I (Written shortly before his arrest.)II (Written the first year in the disciplinary brigade.)III (Written in the disciplinary brigade, first or second year.)IV (Written in the disciplinary brigade, first or second year.)V (So far as is known, the last thing written in the disciplinary brigade, third year. There are no verses and few letters for the next seven years.)VI (Written in exile in Russia about a month before his death.) E. L. VOYNICH, in his essay, says: "At the beginning of 1847 he was appointed Art Lecturer to Kiev University. Immediately afterwards he, his friend the historian Kostomarov and many other persons were arrested on a charge of belonging to a seditious body called " The Brotherhood of SS. Cyril and Methodius." Shevchenko denied membership, and the police, on investigation, withdrew the charge. As for the society, which Kostomarov had started among the university students, it was seditious to the extent of advocating religious liberty, popular education, the abolition of serfdom, of corporal punishment and of the death penalty, and the ultimate federation of all Slavonic peoples; but the official police report acquits it of any more "revolutionary aims" than "to found schools and to publish books for the poor." Shevchenko, the report continues, though not a member of the society, was "actuated by his own vicious tendencies." He had "composed in the Little Russian tongue verses of a most abominable character," which might set people dreaming; and had shown "boundless impudence." . . . . " The extraordinary respect felt by all Ukrainian Slavists both for Shevchenko personally and for his poems," and his "reputation as a famous Little Russian writer" might make his verses "doubly harmful and dangerous, " so he "must be regarded as one of the more important offenders." And he adds presently, "In 1850 an officer sent in a report that private Shevchenko was writing verses, painting portraits and wearing civilian dress. A search was made and he was found in the possession of private letters, a Bible, Shakespeare, the Imitation of Christ, Lermontov, Pushkin and other Russian classics, a box of paints, portfolios for drawings, and civilian clothing. A report was sent to the Emperor Nicholas, by whose personal wish the writing and drawing had been forbidden. He replied commanding that the offender should be kept under strict arrest while his immediate superiors "answered before the law" for their slackness in permitting him to draw. " "As for his unrealized personal ambitions, he has given us a list of them. "I asked such little things of God," one of the lyrics says : a hut by the Dnieper, where he could live with "my poor girl," Oxana, and sing folk-songs in the evening after the day's work; a bit of land to cultivate, a patch of garden ground, two poplar trees of his own ; and to die by the Dnieper and be buried on " Such a tiny little hill . . ."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian. To get started finding Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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