person
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko
Shevchenko
also: Тарас Шевченко, Шевченко, Taras Shevchenko
The great Ukrainian national poet (1814-1861), author of "Kobzar"; Chekhov praises Ivan Belousov's choice to translate him as proof of Belousov's own poetic instincts, while faulting the translation's un-Russified Ukrainianisms as departures from strict fidelity.
Reading notes
- To I. A. Belousov, 3 August 1887. Babkino. §3 Shevchenko
Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861), the great Ukrainian national poet, whose verse Belousov had translated into Russian. Chekhov treats the choice of subject itself as evidence of Belousov's genuine poetic sensibility.