"Journal" of Taras Shevchenko - all Russian schodennik records of the poet, who worked hard after receiving news about the possibility of release from the sent and before arriving in St. Petersburg***. The pages of this work are a sincere and wide-ranging conversation, which reveals to the readers a completely new Shevchenko; The author’s most famous works are “Haydamaki”, “Gamalia”, “Dream”, “Heretic”, “Zapovit”, “Namichka”, “Isaiah. Chapter 35”, “David’s Psalms”, “Mary”, “Neophytes”, “And to the dead, and to the living...”, “The Great Frozen”. Taras Shevchenko is a prominent Ukrainian singer and artist, a fighter for the will of Ukraine.