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The Father Of Ukrainian: Meanwhile he began writing poems in the Ukrainian language, and his first published volume, Kobzar (1840) went through several editions. In 1847 he was arrested for membership in a Ukrainian nationalist society and sentenced to 10 years' service as an army private in Central Asia. Among his most famous paintings are those depicting Central Asian child beggars, a Russian prison inmate being tortured, and two noblemen bartering serfs for dogs. His writings mainly supported the causes of freedom for serfs and Ukrainian nationalism. He is known as the father of Ukrainian literature.
Life. Gogol was born in Velikiye Sorochintsy, near Mirgorod, in the Ukrainian province of Poltava, on March 20 (New Style, April 1), 1809, and grew up on his parents' country estate. His father, a powerful influence on the boy, wrote plays, poems, and sketches in Ukrainian. Even while in high school, where he painted, acted, and began to write, Gogol's sympathy for the unjustly oppressed caused him to testify boldly in behalf of a teacher accused of freethinking.
The city has had a sizable Polish population since 1910, and since the end of World War II (1945), it has become the home of many Slavic displaced persons. Immaculate Conception Ukrainian High School in Hamtramck was the first parochial Ukrainian Catholic high school in the United States to be sponsored by an individual parish. St. Florian's Roman Catholic Church is a fine example of Gothic architecture. |
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