THE UKRAINIAN CULTURE FRONT
Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Members included Panteleimon Kulish (1819-1897), Yurii Andruzky (1827 – after 1864), Vasyl Bilozersky (1825-1899), Mykola Hulak (1821-1899), and Dmytro Pylchykov (1821-1893). Taras Shevchenko (1814-1861) was arrested because his poems had been found by the secret police among the documents of the participants and he was the champion of the independence of Ukraine, not being the part of federation.