In Astrakhan

Taras Shevchenko. In Astrakhan. Stained paper and pencil (10.1 × 28.6 cm). [5 – 22.VIII 1857]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 827.

Lower left – pencil inscription by hand Shevchenko: 1. In Astrakhan.

Top right ink marked: Number 117 – 137.

Dated by the time Shevchenko stay in Astrakhan.

In the book by M. Kalaushyn "T. Shevchenko in portraits and illustrations» [L., 1940, p. 145] reproduced under a false name "Nizhni Novgorod".

Storage areas: property of A. A. Kozachkovsky, V. P. Kakhovski, S. D. Brazol, V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 356, Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures T. H. Shevchenko, Kharkiv, Taras Shevchenko Central Museum, Kyiv.

In 1929 exposed at the exhibition of works of Taras Shevchenko in Chernihiv (Catalogue, p. 20, № 63), in 1939 – on the Republican Shevchenko Jubilee Exhibition in Kyiv (Product, № 261).

N. P. Prokopenko

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1963, v. 10, № 1 (image), p. 7 (notes).