Taras Shevchenko, a 25-year-old Ukrainian sculptor, was killed in action on Sunday, 9 March. He was an employee of the Tuzly Lagoons National Nature Park. Source: park’s staff member Ivan Rusiev on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In nearly every village, town, and city across Ukraine today, you can spot some kind of monument to the 19th-century poet and ...

For today’s Monument feature, we thought we’d do another installment in our Embassy Row series, which so far has included the Letelier/Moffitt memorial and statues honoring Ukrainian icon Taras ...

In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.

Taras Shevchenko is an undeniable symbol of Ukraine. But what exactly made an ordinary man an idol and the most famous Ukrainian in our centuries-long history? And what was he really like in real life ...

About the fate of the great poet's legacy, which was collected and preserved by his friends and is now kept at the Taras Shevchenko State Museum in Kyiv.