Panteleimon Kulish
…1843). In 1843–45, Kulish taught in Kyiv and studied Ukrainian history and ethnography. There he befriended Taras Shevchenko, Mykola Kostomarov, and Vasyl Bilozersky; their circle later became the nucleus of the secret Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius, which envisioned a Ukrainian national rebirth, including…