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The face of Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's greatest poet, shows the price paid for desiring Ukrainian independence from the Russian empire. The portrait was taken after his return from a 10 year sentence in Siberia by the order of Czar Nicholas 1. Taras was released in 1857. He died four years later in 1861. Taras was born on March 9, 1814. |
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