ShEVChENKO Taras Grigorevich (9. 3. 1814,. dehai Morinsi, hozira p-ni Zvenigorodi vil. Cherkas—10.- 3.1861, Peterburg), shoir, rassom, mu-tafakir va revolyusioneri demokrati ukrain. S. 1840 nakhustin majm. asarhoi manzumi Shevenko «Kobzar» az chop baromad. Dar kalontarin dostoni tarikhi i Shevchenko «Gaydamakho» (1341) shurishn buzurgi khalqi ukrain bar ziddi feodaloni polyak (1786) tasvir shudaast. Sheru dostonhoi Shevchenko. «lob» (1844) va «Kavkaz» (1845) dar inkishofi lirika va hajvi siyosii ukrain marhilai nave gardidand. Dar sheri «Vasiyat» (1845) mardumro oshkoro ba sarnagun namudani hukumati podshohi davat kardaast. Shevchenko du bor badarga shud: apr. 1847 ba qalai Orsk; s. 1850 ba No-vopetrovsk. S. 1857 badi margi Nikolai I az badarga ozod gardid. Dar badarga sherhoi revolyusioni ejod kardaast. Bahori 1858 ba Peterburg omad va dar in jo bo N. G. Chernishevskiy, N. A. Dobrolyubov, N. A. Nekrasov va dig. qarobat paydo kard. Hajvash tezu tundtar gardid. S-hoi 1857—61 nazmi Shevchenko ba avji inkishof rasid. Shevchenko chun rassom niz mashhur ast: «Katerina» (1842), «Ukrainai zebomanzar» (nashr. 1844), «Avtoportret» (1840— 41) va g. Ashori Shevchenko bo anaiahoi nazmi khalqi robitai qavi dorad. Shevchenko asosguzori adabiyoti navi ukrain, saromadi realizm va raviyai demokratii revolyusioni dar adabiyotu sanati naqqoshii Ukraina meboshad. Asarhoi u ba bisyor zabonhoi jahon, az jumla, zaboni tojiki tarjuma shudaand. Shevchenko bo tabiri M. Tursunzoda «baroi taraqqii sheri inqilobii tojik hissa guzoshtaast». Shoironi tojik ba bisyor sherhoi u, makhsusan, ba sheri «Vasiyat» hamovozi kardaand. Obrazi Shevchenko diqqati bisyor navisandagoni tojikro ba sui khud kashidaast. Mas., yak bobi dostoni «Mavjhoi Dnepr»-i M. Qanoat «Mavj dar peshonai poki Taras» nom dorad. Bobi «Majdi khanda»-i hamin doston az tasiri sarguzashta qahramoni mashhuri Shevchenko— Katerina ba vujud omadaast. Dar Kiev, Kanev, dehahoi Shevchenko va Morinsi, dar Leningrad, Orsk va dig. shahru dehot muzeyhoi Shevchenko vujud dorand. Inti adabiyoti AF RSSU, Un-ti Kiev va In-ti davlatii pedagogii Dushanbe ba nomi Shevchenko guzoshta shudaand. Bisyor maktabu kitobkhona va kuchayu kinoteatrhoi Tojikiston nomi Shevchenkoro dorand. Dar Ukraina mukofoti Shevchenko tasis bftaast.