Luhansk
Videos
Luhansk, also known as Lugansk, is a city in the Donbas region, eastern Ukraine. As of 2022, the population was estimated to be 397,677, making Luhansk the 12th-largest city in Ukraine.
Image: Shevchenko's Park
Image: Музей истории Луганска
Image: Драматический театр
Image: Советская №64
Taras Shevchenko
Videos
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian.
Taras Shevchenko's pencil sketch of his parents' house in Kyrylivka, drawn in 1843
Taras Shevchenko. Portrait of Pavlo Engelgardt (1833), National Museum Taras Shevchenko
Karl Briullov, Portrait of the poet V.A. Zhukovsky (1837/8), National Museum Taras Shevchenko