 With many circumstances of his life remaining mysterious to this day, Fedorovych is a revered figure in both Ukrainian folklore and in the Ukrainian national idea, a hero of poems by Taras Shevchenko, a personage of the earliest Ukrainian motion picture and one of only four Cossack leaders explicitly mentioned in the Pavlo Chubynsky poem that later became the basis of the modern National Anthem of Ukraine.Taras Fedorovych was born to a Tatar family in Crimea, his given name was Hassan.It is unclear when he converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity and joined the Zaporozhian Cossacks Host.