Archangel Cathedral in Nizhny Novgorod

Taras Shevchenko. Archangel Cathedral in Nizhny Novgorod. Stained paper, sepia, white (16.6 × 31.2 cm). [Nizhny Novgorod]. [11 – 12 Oct 1857]. Taras Shevchenko National Museum, inv. g – 602.

Figure Shevchenko pasted on a sheet of firmer paper.

Lower left – pencil inscription by hand Shevchenko: NN. Archangel Cathedral.

On the back of a sheet on which picture pasted, at the bottom ink inscription by hand Shevchenko: NN. Archangel Cathedral built in XIV century, top left – by another hand in pencil: It is drawn in Nizhny. 11 October 1857. In diary [Oct. 12] says, that this cathedral built in 1227 in the reign of Jurii Vsevolodovich, at the bottom above Shevchenko's autograph – by the same hand: signature Shevchenko.

Dated on the basis of recording Shevchenko in his diary on 12 October 1857:

"I finished yesterday started earlier drawing of the cathedral. Original, beautiful and most ancient, well-preserved building in Nizhny Novgorod. This cathedral was built during the Great Prince of the Nizhny Novgorod Jurii Vsevolodovich in 1227".

Storage areas: property of V. N. Lazarevsky, V. Tarnowski's Chernihiv museum of ukrainian antiquities – № 371 Chernihiv Regional History Museum, Gallery of pictures Shevchenko, Kharkiv.

In 1929 exposed at the exhibition of works of Taras Shevchenko in Chernihiv (Catalogue, p. 20, № 73).

N. P. Prokopenko

After publication: Taras Shevchenko Complete Works in 10 volumes. – Kyiv: ed. Academy of sciences of UkrSSR, 1963, v. 10, № 15 (image), p. 12 (note).