[Meetings in Petersburg of doctor-poet S. Rudansky and poet-painter T. Shevchenko].

While his studying in the Medical Surgery Academy of Petersburg, engaging himself in literary creation and being a patriot of Ukrainian culture, S. Rudansky might meet Taras Shevchenko in a many literary soirees in which the poet-painter took part. T. Shevchenko read satirical poems by S. Rudansky. While his living in Crimea, S. Rudansky remained fervid propagandist of T. Shevchenko's works, metwith many friends and close friends of the poet-painter.