Markiyan Shashkevych

Markiyan Shashkevych was born on 6 November 1811 in Pidlyssia, in Galicia, into a family of Greek Catholic priests. Having entered the Lviv seminary in 1829, he was expelled from it in 1831 for indiscipline, then returned. There he formed, with Ivan Vahylevych and Yakiv Holovatsky, the Ruthenian Triad, which wanted to make the spoken language of the country the equal of Polish, and he devised a phonetic orthography. Ordained in 1838, he was priest of poor villages, lost his youngest son, then his sight and hearing, and died of tuberculosis at Novosilky on 7 June 1843, aged thirty-one.

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• PoetryРусалка ДністроваяMarkiyan Shashkevych · 1837not translated into EnglishLiterature