T. G. Shevchenko (1814–1861) - a prominent Ukrainian singer, a talented prose writer and playwright, an important artist, whose works reflected the entire era of our history. The story “The Artist” is in the world autobiographical. And the author himself can guess the talented artist. There are real characters here: K Bryullov, A Venetsianov, V Zhukovsky, just like Shevchenko became a great person