У статті досліджено історії автографа вірша Тараса Шевченка “Якось-то йдучи уночі”, який поет
написав восени 1860 р. Про існування цього автографа 1911 р. повідомив Дмитро Затиркевич,
який знайшов його в архіві батька, Івана Затиркевича. Останній 1861 р. служив в Орлі, куди
2 травня прибула для прощання труна з тілом Шевченка. Головним організатором скорботних
урочистостей в Орлі був Іван Лазаревський, котрому допомагав І. Затиркевич. Вдячний
Лазаревський і подарував Затиркевичеві автограф вірша. Угорі над текстом напис: “Автограф
Т. Г. Шевченко, подаренный мне Лазаревским в Орле”. Проведений у статті зіставний аналіз
почерку на автографі та рукописів Івана Затиркевича дав змогу встановити їх тотожність.
Цей автограф та знайдені в ньому розбіжності з остаточним текстом проливають світло на
процес роботи поета.
The article reveals the history of the autograph of Taras Shevchenko’s poem “Once I Was Walking
at Νight” (“Yakos’-to yduchy unochi”). The poet wrote it in the autumn of 1861. The existence of this
autograph was reported by Dmytro Zatyrkevych, who found it while sorting the archive of his late father
Ivan Zatyrkevych. The latter himself was a talented poet and began to write poetry being a student of
the classical school in Nizhyn. His fable “Puddle” was published in the journal “Osnova” and became
popular thanks to the famous Ukrainian actress Hanna Zatyrkevych-Karpinska. She advised the fable
to Marko Kropyvnytskyi, who repeatedly and with constant success read it from the stage. Having
graduated from Nizhyn, Ivan Zatyrkevych became a military man and participated in the Crimean War.
In 1861 he served in Orel, where on May 2 the farewell procession with the body of Taras Shevchenko
came. Ivan Zatyrkevych took an active part in preparing the farewell ceremony in Orel. In gratitude, Ivan
Lazarevskyi, who was the main organizer of the mournful procession in honor of Taras Shevchenko in
Orel, presented the autograph of the poem “Once I Was Walking at Night” to Zatyrkevych. At the top
of the autograph, there is an inscription made by an unknown hand: “Autograph by T. H. Shevchenko
presented to me by Lazarevskyi in Orel.” A comparison of the handwritings made it possible to establish
that this inscription belongs to Ivan Zatyrkevych. In the summer of 1911 Dmytro Zatyrkevych announced
his find to Mykhailo Hrushevskyi and then offered selling an autograph, as he needed money. Apparently,
Mykhailo Hrushevskyi agreed and bought an autograph. Hrushevsky published fragments of the
correspondence with Dmytro Zatyrkevych and selected poetic and prose works of Ivan Zatyrkevych
within the article “One from Nizhyn” in the journal “Literaturno-Naukovyi Visnik”.
