T. Shevchenko Museum in Fort Shevchenko

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Fort Shevchenko. 1954. A well on the territory of the former military fortification Novopetrovskoye, from which the Ukrainian poet Taras Grigorievich Shevchenko took water 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