The monument to Taras Shevchenko in Romny, the first monument in the world to the great Kobzar, was opened on October 27, 1918, in honor of Taras Grigorievich's stay at the Ilyinsky Fair in the summer of 1845. The author of the monument is the outstanding Ukrainian sculptor Ivan Kavaleridze, on
Andreevsky Spusk in Kyiv there is a model of this monument made by him. The original monument to Taras Shevchenko was dismantled in the mid-1920s. In 1982, a copy of the monument was installed at this place - the bronze figure of Shevchenko sitting in thought is on a concrete base, stylized as a stone block. The pedestal is engraved with a line from Taras Shevchenko's poem “To Mark Vovchka. For memory”: “...I will come to life, I will free my mind to freedom, I will call from the dominion.”