About the book: 1972 / The collection includes poetic works of the great Ukrainian poet T. G. Shevchenko (1814–1861). The great world of national and universal existence rises from the flaming pages of "Kobzar". Pictures of folk life, with the diversity of its human types and faces, its dramas and tragedies, as well as with its rare poetically bright moments, with its sorrowful present and difficult, but heroic past, with its customs and legends, the beauty of its native land and its landscapes - all this was artistically given by Shevchenko for subsequent generations with that “paternal” originality, generosity and immutability, which in the literature of the 19th century makes him, first of all, with Pushkin and Mickiewicz. Introductory article by M. Rylsky. Notes by I. Aizenstock. Illustrations by T. Shevchenko.