Kazakh in yurt (cover p. 2)

Taras Shevchenko. Kazakh in yurt. Peasant. Outline. Pencil. [VII – VIII 1846; VI – VII 1848, I – III 1849]. Second cover page of album 1846 – 1850 № 108

Sketch of Kazakh is one option to the picture "Kazakhs in a yurt" (see number 14, 57); inversely to it – silhouette peasant in the cap. Above him hand Shevchenko inscription: Oh sitted Cossack on the road // and patched up a shirt // near…

Dated by the residence time in the Ukraine and Raim.

Z. V. Lashkul

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1962, vol. 8, № 56 (image), p. 33 (notes).