Poem "Prayer"

22 May 1861 Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was reburied in Kaniv in 2006. Victor Mykolayovych Zabila was deeply impressed by the poet's death, his old friend and brother. The mourning procession passed through the territory of Chernihiv region, to which Viktor Zabila joined in Borzna and escorted Shevchenko to Kaniv. He was also among the diggers of the grave, what Mykola Bilozersky mentioned: “The grave over Shevchenko's grave was dug up for several days; worked 17 людей, among them VM. Killed. A photo was taken from this picture. ”.

Sad feelings are reflected in the poem "Prayer", which the poet recorded 31 May 1861 in Borzna in the album of a graduate of the Poltava Institute of Noble Girls Nadezhda Zhdanovich. She was an ardent admirer of Shevchenko's work, with whom I met 1843 year in Yahotyn, on the estate of the Repnin family. This album is stored in the funds of the Chernihiv Historical Museum named after VV. Tarnovsky. In the same year the poem B. The victims were published in the magazine "Chernihiv Diocesan News".