Повість Оксани Іваненко про дитинство і юність Тараса Григоровича Шевченка. Твір складається з двох частин і охоплює події до викупу Шевченка з кріпацтва і виходу "Кобзаря".
Written in the years of Soviet power heydays of the seventies - eighties of the XXth century, this biographical book is emphasized on a historic reality of eastern-european Slavic people of whom insignificant cultural and language differences reflect past divisions along arbitrary boundaries of the empires perished. Clearly, parading both anti-Semitic, chauvinist inclinations and religious intolerance was out of agenda for then writer craft Oksana Ivanenko belonged to. More of Taras Shevchenko, a writer of XIXth century, was during momentum of new Ukraine's some liberties presented by publicist Oles' Buzyna annihilated after Maidan-2014.