Kazakh station at Kos-Aral

Taras Shevchenko. Kazakh station at Kos-Aral. Watercolour (13,7 × 22,7 cm). [Kos-Aral]. [6.X 1848 – 6.V 1849]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 446.

In the picture background on the right – building of Kos-Aral fort.

Dated by the residence time of the expedition at the Kos-Aral.

Sketch of similar reclining figure of Kazakh see № 125.

In literature known as "Kyrgyz tent" ["Product painting art Shevchenko, exhibited in galleries", Kharkiv, 1934, p. 30], "Kyrgyz tents on the shore of the Aral sea" ["Catalog of V. Tarnowski's museum of ukrainian antiquities", Chernigov, 1900, Vol. II, p. 177, № 207], " Kyrgyz situation in the Aral sea coast" ["Images Shevchenko", no. II, SPb., 1914, Table. XII, № 1], " Kirghiz hut on the shore of the Aral sea" [L. Karachevska, Exhibition Shevchenko, Chernigov, 1930, Part 2, p. 19, № 41].

Storage areas: V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 207, Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum, Gallery of pictures by T.H. Shevchenko (Kharkiv).

In 1929 exhibited at the exhibition of works of Taras Shevchenko in Chernihiv (Product, Part 2, p. 19, № 41).

L. I. Vnuchkova

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 34 (image), p. 21 (notes).