T. Shevchenko Museum in Fort Shevchenko

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Fort Shevchenko. 1954. Stone table and bench on the territory of the former military fortification Novopetrovskoye, made by the Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko during his seven-year exile to the Mangyshlak Peninsula (T. Shevchenko was assigned to military service as a private as punishment under the strictest supervision of his superiors with a ban on writing and drawing). The exact date of the photo is unknown. Mark Redkin/TASS