The poet lives in the hearts of his people

10 March 2021 , in Chernihiv Historical Museum named VV. Tarnovsky the exhibition opened "The poet lives in the hearts of his people", dedicated to the 160th anniversary of the death of Taras Shevchenko and his reburial in Ukraine.

In the language of the original exhibits, it is told about the significant contribution to the commemoration of the Great Kobzar by the famous Ukrainian writer Panteleimon Kulish, Boris Grinchenko, Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky, whose lives were connected with Chernihiv in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The scientific works of the first biographers of the poet Mykhailo Chaly and Oleksandr Konysky are included, natives of Chernihiv region.

The exhibition presents the original letter of Panteleimon Kulish to the Ukrainian writer and ethnographer Yakov Kukharenko, which describes the burial ceremony of T. Shevchenko at the Smolensk cemetery in St. Petersburg in February 1861 year. The album "Kachanivka" with the autographs of T. is on display. Shevchenko and his friend the poet Viktor Zabyla. The original photo shows Volodymyr Naumenko, a writer, педагога, native of. Новгорода-Сіверського. On 1902 Volodymyr Pavlovych had the right to publish Shevchenko's works.

An important role in the arrangement of Shevchenko's grave was played by the collector of Ukrainian antiquities and public figure Vasyl Tarnovsky Jr.. 1884 year, a six-meter cast-iron monument - a weighted cross - was cast at the expense of a patron 3.8 tons. The sketch of the bas-relief with the image of Kobzar was made for him by Vasyl Tarnovsky himself. He wished, that such words of the poet were cast on the monument:

“Love your Ukraine,

Любіть її… Во время люте,

In the rest of the difficult moment

Pray to the Lord for her. ”.

На. pity, the plate with these lines had to be removed at the request of the authorities. VV Tarnovsky collected the largest Shevchenko in Ukraine, which numbered more 1000 items, and became the basis of the Taras Shevchenko National Museum.

"The poet lives in the hearts of his people" - lines from a poem by the poet Vladimir Samylenko, whose life was connected with our land, became prophetic.

Head of the scientific and educational department of the museum Natalia Samokhina