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'' sculptor nicolai shmatko -rrb- ` portrait of soshenko i.m. '' ' -lrb- romantic art . 18 july 1876 korsun , ukraine Іван Максимович Сошенко bohuslav , ukraine 200px ukrainian painting 2 june 1807 soshenko.jpg ivan soshenko
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ivan soshenko

ivan maksymovych soshenko -lrb- , 2 june 1807 bohuslav , in the kiev governorate of the russian empire -- 18 july 1876 korsun -rrb- was a ukrainian painter .
soshenko studied at the saint petersburg academy of arts from 1834 -- 8 , then taught painting in gymnasiums in nizhyn from 1839 -- 46 , nemyriv from 1846 -- 56 , and kiev .
his work included portraits , genre scenes , landscapes , and religious icons .
in 1835 he met and befriended taras shevchenko .
along with teaching him the use of watercolors , soshenko also introduced him to authors and painters yevhen hrebinka , vasily zhukovsky , karl briullov , and alexey venetsianov , and helped in the purchase shevchenko 's freedom from serfdom .
later , he helped shevchenko to be admitted to the st petersburg academy of arts .
mykhailo chaly published a biography of soshenko in kiev in 1876 .
