Catalog of monuments of Ukraine

Full name of the monument :

Monument to T.G. Shevchenko

Region :

Sumy region

Address of the monument :

The center of the village, near the village council, village Shevchenkove, Konotopsky district

Status :

Historical monument of local significance

Monument installation year (s) (if available) :

1959

Time classification according to the installation epoch :

Soviet period (1922-1991)

sculptor Ya. Krasnozhon

Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :

real person(s)

Gender :

male

Nationality :

Ukrainian

Social status :

intellectuals

Components of the monument :

the height of the sculpture is 2.8 m, the pedestal is 2.5 m

Material :

mixed materials

Type of art composition :

one-figure composition

Artistic approach :

figurative art

Narrative commemorates :

Ukrainian statehood from the IX to the XVIII centuries

The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :

exists

Institution responsible for maintenance :

Konotop city council

Institution’s website :

https://konotop-rada.gov.ua/

Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko had a close relationship with the Lazarevski family, residents of the village. Hyryavka (now the village of Shevchenko) of the Konotop district, who helped him both materially and morally. He had a particularly close relationship with O. Lazarevsky, a famous Ukrainian historian of Left Bank Ukraine. In August 1859, while traveling from Kyiv to St. Petersburg, T. Shevchenko visited friends in the village of Hyryavka to the brothers F. and I. Lazarevsky. Here he painted a portrait of Lazarevski's mother Afanasiya Oleksiivna, gave a personally handwritten poem on a piece of paper "Cherry orchard around the house", met with the peasants, recorded folk songs. In honor of Kobzar's stay in the village in 1923 Hyryavka was renamed Shevchenkiv. IN 1959, for the 100th anniversary of the outstanding poet's stay in the Konotop region, a monument was opened in his honor. The poet's concrete sculpture is mounted on a hill-shaped pedestal.