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This is a corpus edition of all the investigative and supervisory files of Taras Shevchenko as integral office complexes of the police and gendarmerie and military departments. This is the first complete academic publication of Shevchenko's documents of this type. It includes metagraphed texts and facsimile reproductions of about 400 documents from the thirteen years of the poet's life (1847-1859); 147 of them are being introduced to scientific circulation for the first time.

The book contains a facsimile publication of more than thirty letters to Taras Shevchenko that were recently found and considered lost. For the first time, documents of the eighteenth century, collected by the poet during his service in the Temporary Commission for the Review of Ancient Acts, are published. A large-scale picture of the one and a half century migration of the archival Shevchenkoiana has been reconstructed.