Brotherhood of Tarasovs

Brotherhood of Tarasivtsi (Ukrainian: Братство тарасівців, Bratstvo tarasivtsiv) was an underground student organization.

In the small town of Hlynsk near Romny, where the students operated by the end of summer 1891, the program of the Brotherhood was established .

Among them were: The ideological fundamentals of the organization were prepared by Ivan Lypa and were published in Pravda magazine in April 1893.

Those ideas were later propagated by B.Hrinchenko in his Letters from the Dnieper Ukraine and Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky in his fairy tale Kho.

In summer 1893 some of the members of the society were arrested in Kharkiv, but further centers reappeared in Kiev, Odessa, Poltava to name just a few.