Taras Shevchenko spent the last years of his life working on new poetry, paintings, and engravings, as well as editing his older works, but after his difficult years in exile his final illness proved too much.
Taras Shevchenko spent the last years of his life working on new poetry, as well as editing his older works. Taras Shevchenko spent the last years of his life working on paintings, as well as editing his older works. Taras Shevchenko spent the last years of his life working on engravings, as well as editing his older works. His final illness proved too much. This was after his difficult years in exile.