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The Kobzar was first published in 1840 in St. Petersburg with the assistance of Yevhen Hrebinka. The collection includes only eight works: "Perebendya", "Katerina", "Topolya", "Dumka" (Why do I need black eyebrows), "To Osnovyanenko", "Ivan Pidkova", "Tarasova Nachtand «My thoughts, my thoughts, misfortune is with you», which was written specifically for this collection and is a kind of epigraph not only to this edition, but also to the entire work of Taras Shevchenko.

After the publication of this collection, Taras Shevchenko himself began to be called a kobzar. Even Taras Shevchenko himself, after some of his stories, began to sign himself «Kobzar Darmohrai».