Shevchenko up close

This book is about Taras Shevchenko, about his three journeys through Ukraine and about people close to him. The external and internal manifestations of the poet's everyday life during his three journeys through Ukraine are described. Staying with representatives of the Ukrainian elite of the 19th century, his circle of friends at that time, expeditions and balls. And at the same time, internal experiences: love, the pain of serfdom, the freedom of a free person, the feeling of an exiled person, the state of an unreliable person, internal rebellion against the empire and doubts. It is valuable that in this book Shevchenko is shown alive, not stereotyped, without the distance of time and layers of cultism - Shevchenko up close.