that time the young man met his compatriots Soshenko,
Hrebinka, Venetsianov, they showed his works to the famous Russian artist Carl Briullov. Shevchenko’s paintings impressed Briullov, and he decided to help him. Carl Briullov painted a portrait of the Russian poet Zhukovskyi and disposed it in a lottery. The money was used to buy Shevchenko’s freedom from Engelhardt in 1838.Olexandr Venetsianov Carl Briullov