Markiian Semenovych Shashkevych (; November 6, 1811 in Pidlyssia,

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– June 7, 1843 in Novosilky, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria) was a priest of the

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, a poet, a translator, and the leader of the literary revival in

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. Shashkevych's parents were Simon Shaskevych (Szaszkiewicz) and Elizabeth Audykowska, who was the daughter of Rev. Romanus Audykowski, the Greek Catholic parish priest in Pidlyssia. In 1832, Shashkevych and fellow students organized a group aimed at the rise of the Ukrainian dialect free of Church Slavonic and alien 'styles' up to the literary language. He graduated from the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary at

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in 1838 and worked as a priest in the rural Lwow powiat. During his studies he met Yakiv Holovatsky and Ivan Vahylevych, with whom he formed the Ruthenian Triad (aka ''Ruska Triitsia''). The activities of the Shashkevych circle constituted not only a literary phenomenon, but a social and democratic movement. Its greatest achievement was the publication of an almanac entitled '' Rusalka Dnistrovaia'' ('The Mermaid of the Dniester'), which was the first collection of

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to appear in Western Ukraine (1837).The Mermaid of the Dniester
- UNESCO Courier, March 1989 by Osyp Petrash After a short life, he was first buried at Nowosilky in 1843, present Zolochiv Raion of the

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, and then in 1891 his mortal remains were transferred to the Lychakiv Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shashkevych, Markiyan 1811 births 1843 deaths Writers from Lviv Oblast Writers from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Ukrainian Austro-Hungarians Ukrainian male poets University of Lviv alumni Ukrainian Eastern Catholics Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery 19th-century poets Eastern Catholic poets Members of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Ukrainian writers in Polish Ruthenian Triad

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