And how terrible was the fate of the talented poet of Little Russia, shevchenko, who was exiled for many years to a corner of European Russia and forbidden to do any writing or even painting, a thing that he loved above all!
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
We read of Ryleev, Odoevsky, shevchenko, Griboyedov, Pisarev, Chernishevsky, whose martyrdoms I have already mentioned.
"Comrade Kropotkin"
Victor Robinson