Ukrainian community activist, educator - Democrat, folklorist, journalist and writer, a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Born in a family priest in Lviv, which then belonged to Austria. In the 30 years of XIX century in Ukraine was with J. F. Holovatskym founder of the literary circle "The Russian trio, who had antykriposnytskyy proslov'yanskyy and direction. In 1838 he graduated from the seminary, while training in her attending classes at Lviv University. Then the priest in the villages in Lviv region. He died of tuberculosis. In his literary works Shashkevych MS stood for the unity of the Ukrainian people, praised the struggle against national and social oppression. He studied folk art, activities and history Khmelnitskogo Cossacks.