Shevchenko is easy to speak as a living man, because he is in all the segments of our culture: from books and talks about that he is an icon and a prophet, to memes in social networks. His biography is an incredible story of success, which was almost not revealed in the Soviet Union. The image of a frog of old age in a shell hat is actually somewhat thoughtful, because on that most famous portrait of Shevchenko is a high-paid graver, which could afford to live in St. Petersburg, in a two-storey apartment-studio. He was a self-made man, that is, a man who made himself.