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The Ruthenian Trinity (Ruthenian: Руська троица; Ukrainian: Руська трійця, romanized: Ruska triitsia) was a Galician literary group led by Markiian Shashkevych, Yakiv Holovatskyi, and Ivan Vahylevych, which began a national and cultural revival in the western Ukrainian lands in the late 1820s (1833-1837).[1][2][3] They were representatives of Romantic nationalism in Ukraine.[4] and played a crucial role in the development of Ukrainian nationalism.[5] The three all first met as students at the Greek Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv.[6]