On September 4, the opening of the exhibition “Kerelivka Photographer. The Heritage of Hryhoriy Shevchenko” from the collection of the Mykola Babak Foundation will take place! For the first time, Hryhoriy Shevchenko’s photographic heritage will be widely presented in his homeland – in the village of Shevchenkove (formerly Kerelivka) in the Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum of the National Reserve “Taras Shevchenko’s Homeland”. Photographer Hryhoriy Petrovych Shevchenko was born in 1868 in the village of Kerelivka, Zvenyhorod district, Kyiv province (now the village of Shevchenkove in Cherkasy region). He was Taras Shevchenko’s great-nephew. During his photographic activity, Hryhoriy Shevchenko created many highly artistic photographs and unique photo postcards with images of the places where Taras Hryhoriych was born and spent his childhood. At his own expense, the photographer published about 160 unique photo postcards under the title “Types and Types of Ukraine”. He recorded for history a bright galaxy of outstanding figures, cultural figures, peasants, countrymen of the poet, picturesque Ukrainian landscapes.
Of the considerable achievements of the descendant of a great family, only a few dozen photographs and postcards have survived, which are in the collections of the National Taras Shevchenko Museum in Kyiv, the Taras Shevchenko Kobzar Museum in Cherkasy, and the Mykola Babak Foundation.
📍 Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum in the village of Shevchenkove, Zvenyhorod district, Cherkasy region
📅 September 4
🕛 12:00
Project partner: MHP – Hromady Foundation
The exhibition is held with the assistance of the Department of Culture and Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Cherkasy Regional State Administration
Organizational partner: Taras Shevchenko Literary and Memorial Museum in the village of Shevchenkove
Project curator: Veronika Ganiechko