Kyiv Kobzar Choir at Taras Shevchenko's grave in Kaniv

Front row (from left to right): Fedir Doroshko, Hryhoriy Kopan, Avram Yatsenko, and Mykola Hrysenko; second row (from left to right): Isaak Tsybuliv, Mykhailo Polatai, Hryhoriy Komarenko, and Mykola Opryshko. The artistic director of the kobzar choir – Mykhailo Polatai. Background (standing): the grave's guard, Yadlovskyi, who guarded Shevchenko's grave for 50 years. In the center of the grave, a temporary monument-bust designed by sculptor Kalenyk Tereshchenko can be seen; it stood on the Chernecha Hill from 1923 to 1939. Photo from the historical ethnographic album Ukraine and Ukrainians by Ivan Honchar, volume Kyiv and Its Suburbs.