On the history of publication of T. Shevchenko «Kobzar» by Saint Petersburg «Charity Society of Publication of Universally Beneficial and Cheap Books for Public»

Abstract

We have submitted for publication the documents about T. Shevchenko «Kobzar» publication by the «Charity Society of Publication of Universally Beneficial and Cheap Books for Public», headed by P. Stebnytsky, which are deposited in the private archival fonds of a famous Ukrainian public person. These documents are an additional source for more detailed research of both the historical specific concepts associated to the great Ukrainian poet creative works popularization in tsarist Russia of the beginning of the XXth century and the personality of P. Stebnytsky. The documents of «Kobzar» Publication Reports» and «Kobzar» Sales Reports» are the reports of P. Stebnytsky to the General Meeting of «Charity Society» in 1908 and 1909, and they present details of «Kobzar» path from a publishing house to a reader.