Hryhoriy Chestachivskyi
Hryhorij Mykolajowytsch Tschestachiwskyj ( Ukrainian Григорій Миколайович Честахівський , Russian Григорий Николаевич Честаховский Grigori Nikolaevich Tschestachowski * thirtieth January 1820 in Nowa Praha , Kherson Gubernia , Russian Empire , † March 1893 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian painter and author of Taras Shevchenko's memoir .
Life
Hryhorij Tschestachiwskyj was born into a family of military settlers in the village of Nova Praha in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Kirovohrad . From 1843 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and was a member of the St. Petersburg Ukrainian community. In 1854 he received the title of freelance artist of history and portrait painting. In 1858 he met Taras Shevchenko in Saint Petersburg and became one of his few friends. He often visited him in his workshop at the Academy of Arts, where they spoke Ukrainian and sang Ukrainian songs.
After Shevchenko's death in 1861, he painted Taras Shevchenko's grave in the Smolensk cemetery , Taras Shevchenko's coffin on the transport and a peasant at the coffin of Taras Shevchenko . He left the memoirs of Schechenko at the St. Petersburg Art Academy as a student . He was also one of the initiators and organizers of the funeral of Taras Shevchenko on a hill near Kaniv on the bank of the Dnieper , as Shevchenko had wished for in his poem Sapowit . From then on he devoted himself to numerous activities to create a cult around Shevchenko.
Hryhorij Tschestachiwskyj was in his last years a frequent visitor of Vasyl Tarnowskyj in Kachanivka . After Tschestachiwskyi died in March 1893 at the age of 73 in Saint Petersburg, his body was transferred from Tarnowskyi to Kachanivka and buried there.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Famous People Hryhorij Tschestachiwskyj on uahistory.com ; accessed on March 8, 2018 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Entry on Chestakhivsky, Hryhorii in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 8, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Memories of Taras Shevchenko. - K: Dnepr, 1982. - P. 392-39 ; accessed on March 6, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Chestachivskyi, Hryhoriy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tschestachiwskyj, Hryhorij Mykolaovych (full name); Честахівський, Григорій Миколайович (Ukrainian); Честаховский, Григорий Николаевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian painter and author of Taras Shevchenko's memoir |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nowa Praha , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1893 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |