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Shevchenko was accepted as a student into the Academy of Arts in the workshop of Karl Briullov. He became a resident student at the Association for the Encouragement of Artists. At the annual examinations at the Imperial Academy of Arts, Shevchenko was given a Silver Medal for a landscape.
He began writing poetry while he was a serf. In 1840 his first collection of poetry, Kobzar, was published.