sofia square, looked from nature, drew why somehow we imagine it in a different way, no , he could not necessarily draw from nature , a small graphic that almost accidentally got into the funds of the sofia reserve the work of taras shevchenko, who is the face of the ukrainian national resistance, the history of this picture and his work in general helps to understand what kind of war the russian empire waged against all ukrainian it would seem that ukraine was completely subjugated to the 19th century , historians call it long, it was just spurred by events all over europe, empires are collapsing, peoples realize themselves as separate nations and understand that it is around national ideas that states must be built , the wind of the european spring of nations does not bypass ukraine, and a full-fledged national movement is born here, which the empire instantly suppresses ukrainians, they convince that they do not exist and we are absolutely sure what else is shevchenko oksana, the researchers are sure, but at the beginning they doubted the thing is that the work is signed with the name of shevchenko's friend, the artist mykhailo sazhin, a combination of such related techniques as sepia and ble