Mykhailo Maksymovych — a historian, ethnographer, linguist, friend of Taras Shevchenko

Mykhailo Maksymovych (1804-1873) was a historian, ethnographer, linguist, and a friend of Taras Shevchenko. In 1834, he became the first rector of the Kyiv University. Maksymovych came from an old Cossack starshyna (military officers) family from Poltava region. Photo from the historical ethnographic album Ukraine and Ukrainians by Ivan Honchar, volume Kyiv and Its Suburbs.