SOME TOUCHES TO T. SHEVCHENKA'S SKETCH "VYSHHOROD"

Abstract

During his stay in Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko visited Vyshhorod twice in 1843 and 1846 and made a pencil sketch of "Vyshhorod". The poet mentioned the city in the poem "Monk".Today, in the articles of researchers regarding the dating of the picture and the name, there are different readings. In the complete collection of Shevchenko's works in ten volumes (Vol. 7, book 2), the sketch "Vyshhorod" is dated April-September 1846, and the name of the area is under a question mark in Shevchenko's dictionary in 1843 (Vol. 1), in the Full a collection of Shevchenko's works in twelve volumes (Vol. 8) and in the album "Our Great Holy Kyiv" (2004) in June 1843.I0n the Shevchenko encyclopedia (Vol. 1), the name of the drawing is under a question mark ("Vyshhorod?") and is dated April-September 1846 - the time of Shevchenko's stay in Kyiv. At the same time, in the historical article about Vyshhorod placed next to it, the date of its execution is set: June 13, 1843. In one of the latest academic editions of the Shevchenko Encyclopedia: Shevchenko's Artistic Heritage (2017), the painting is dated to mid-June 1846. So, the opinions of Shevchenko experts regarding the time of execution of the drawing and even the name were divided. The purpose of this study, based on documents and materials, research by Shevchenko experts, is to clarify the dating and name of the picture and to expand information about its plot. Using historical, literary, documentary and pictorial sources, we were able to confirm that the artist's painting really depicts the landscape of Vyshgorod with Olzhina Hill, on which the three-domed Borysoglib church rises. The church was built in 1744 by the local priest Vasyl Lukyanovych, and in 1824 a wooden belfry was built. This is confirmed by the images of the same landscape in watercolors by P.Svynyin (1825) and De La Fliese (1854). Today, the landscape of the area has changed somewhat (the bay with the Konoplyanka river under Olzhyna Gora has disappeared) due to the construction of the Kyiv HPP in 1961-1964.On the basis of historical sources, we deepened the information on the history of Vyshhorod and the construction of the first Christian church of St. Basil by Volodymyr the Great (989, not by Princess Olga, as suggested in the comments to Shevchenko's drawing) of the Borys and Hleb temple.There are no documentary facts about the poet's stay in Vyshgorod, but there are only indirect ones. Based on the analysis of Shevchenko studies of the life and work of Shevchenko and the observations of O. Slobodyaniuk ("News about Taras Shevchenko's drawing "Kyiv-Mezhyhirskyi Monastery") regarding the date of production of the whatman, its size, and the quality on which the sketch was made, comparing it with Shevchenko's architectural landscapes 1846 gives reasons to date the sketch "Vyshgorod" in June-July 1846.

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