Taras Shevchenko was a 19th century Ukrainian poet and artist with double meaning in his work. His poems and short stories in Russian were uniquely strong artistically. All of Shevchenko's literary power was contained in his work "Poet". The document also mentions a handwritten manuscript fragment of Shevchenko's poems from 1842 titled "Catherine" and discusses monuments of Taras Shevchenko located in Zaporizhia.