Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Taras Shevchenko
Born: February 25, 1814
Died: March 10, 1861 (aged 47)
Bio: Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a dissident activist in Imperial Russia, and a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnographer.
Known for:
- Zapovit
- Thought
- Ivan Pidkova
- The Night of Taras
- Haidamaky