舍甫琴科的诞生,比圣安德烈教堂的建成晚了大约半个世纪。当年,哈布斯堡帝国代替波兰统治西乌克兰,东乌克兰则在俄罗斯帝国“去乌克兰化”的政策中痛不欲生,俄罗斯企图榨干乌克兰,将其变成一摊“文化的死水”。舍甫琴科因为发表反俄作品被判充军,最终客死圣彼得堡。与此同时,一些出身乌克兰、用俄 Shevchenko’s birth, about half a century later than the completion of St. Andrew’s Church. In the same year, the Habsburg Empire replaced Western Ukraine by Poland and the East Ukraine did not want to die in the Russian Empire’s policy of “going to Ukraine.” Russia tried to drain Ukraine and turn it into a “backwater of culture” . Shevchenko was convicted for the publication of anti-Russian works and eventually died in St. Petersburg. In the meantime, some came from Ukraine and used Russia