…Petersburg, when he became a fashionable portraitist and began to make good money, Shevchenko dressed very fashionably. In particular, in his diary, he wrote about the special pleasure of buying a rubber macintosh, which cost 100 rubles at that time. (For comparison – when Shevchenko worked in an archaeological commission he earned 150 rubles a year). Microminiature “Kobzar” The Ukrainian…
Taras Shevchenko: facts about the genius that most people don’t know
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