(in Ukrainian)
Zinaida Tarakhan-Bereza
The history of the effort to return the remains of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko from Russia in the decades after his death in 1861 and the struggle to provide his grave with a suitable memorial, resulting in the great monument in Kaniv overlooking the Dnipro. The major figures in this effort are vividly described, including some of the leading lights of the Ukrainian intelihentsia at the turn of the century; amply illustrated with nearly 400 photographs and paintings from the time.

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