The bust of the painter Ivan Soshenko was presented to the St.-Petersburg Museum of Taras Shevchenko, the Academy of Arts, from the Ukrainian sponsor Dmitrenko A.I. Ivan Soshenko was born in Ukraine, in Boguslav, but he studied in St.-Petersburg, where he became a famous painter. He played a great part in the fate of his famous fellow countryman – he introduced Taras Shevchenko to Brullov and Zhukovskiy, with the help of whom this serf poet was bought out to freedom in 1838. Almost two centuries later two famous Ukrainians met again in the Northern capital of Russia.