Metadata: Taras Shevchenko
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Scientific-Research Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture and City Planning
- Holding institution (official language):
- Відділ рукописних фондів та текстології Інституту літератури ім. Т.Г. Шевченка НАН України
- Postal address:
- Room 109, 4 Mikhail Hrushevsky Street, Kyiv-1, 01001, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 279-04-88
- Email:
- rukopys@ukr.net
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- Taras Shevchenko
- Title (official language):
- Шевченко Т.Г.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Taras Shevchenko
- Date(s):
- 1828/2001
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 933 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are author’s manuscripts of his cycle of poems “Davydovi psalmy” (“Psalms of David,” 1845), “Prorok” (“The Prophet,” 1848), “Podrazhaniie 11-mu psalmu,” “Isaia. Glava 35 (Podrazhaniie),” “Vo Iudei vo dni ony…,” “Podrazhaniie Iiezekiiliu. Glava 19,”and “Osiia. Glava XIV. (Podrazhaniie)” (all from 1859); “Saul” (1860); the long narrative poems “Tsari” (1848) and “Mariia” (1859); etc. There are also author’s manuscripts of David Hofshtein’s Yiddish translations of verse and long narrative poems by Taras Shevchenko (undated).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Ukrainian writer and artist Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (1814-1861) traversed a life-journey from serfdom to becoming Ukraine’s foremost poet, and an academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1860). His poetry collection Kobzar’ [The Kobza Player] (1848, 1860; after 1876 all complete editions of Shevchenko’s poetry were published under this name) is the major work of classic Ukrainian literature.
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Hofshtein, David
- Shevchenko, T. G.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds’ inventory and card file are structured by document type (genre), and within sections, arranged alphabetically by title (with letters alphabetised by addressee name).
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
