Death of Oleg, Prince of Drevlyansky

The death of Oleg, Prince of Drevlyansky - a drawing of Taras Shevchenko made by him in 1836 in St. Petersburg in ink and a brush on paper. Size 27.5 × 38.9. Bottom left ink date and author's signature: 1836 || Shevchenko.

The plot for the drawing was an episode of internecine struggle in the history of Kievan Rus - the death of Drevlyansky Prince Oleg in 977 during the attack on him by his brother, the Kiev prince Yaropolk, who was subjected to this by the voivode Swineld. The content and details of the drawing coincide with the description of the end of yaropolk's campaign in the "History of the State of Russia" by M. M. Karamzin:

In 1934, in the Gallery of Paintings by Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv, the drawing was exhibited under the title "From the Life of Feudal Russia" (Catalogue, p. 14, No. 5).

The drawing is stored in the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko. Previous places of preservation: collection of O.F. Onegin, "Pushkin's Dom" (St. Petersburg), Taras Shevchenko Institute (Kharkiv), Gallery of paintings by Taras Shevchenko.