The Brief Stories Of Two Famous People From Ukraine

Ukrainian land has given birth to many people talented in different professions, such as artists, poets, writers, politicians, sportsmen, etc.
In this article about famous people from Ukraine I would like to tell you brief stories of two of such famous men, who have similar last names Shevchenko. Those are Andrey Shevchenko (football player) and Taras Shevchenko (poet, writer and artist).

Presently one of the most famous people from Ukraine is its football player Andrey Shevchenko. He was born back in 1976 in one of the Ukrainian villages near Kiev City. When he turned 9 years old he was enlisted into Kiev’s national soccer club Dinamo, in its youth team.

In 1999 Shevchenko started to play for the Italian team Milan and according to the FIFA survey he was acknowledged to be the third world’s best football player. Presently, Andrey Shevchenko plays for English football club Chelsea.

Taras Shevchenko was born in 1814, also in one of the villages near Kiev City. He became the most famous Ukrainian poet, prose writer and artist. He is considered to be a founder of Ukrainian classic language and literature.

During the Soviet times, when Ukrainian culture and language were prosecuted by the Soviet government, Taras Shevchenko became a cult person for many Ukrainian patriots. His poems helped people to survive during those times of trouble and to keep and pass on to the new generation their culture and language.

Those were two brief stories about the most famous people from Ukraine, who share one last name and come from the same region of Ukraine.