The memorial was unveiled on August 22, 2005. Since then, the Cobbler Kovel Monument has traditionally become the highest in the world among the monuments of Taras Shevchenko.
The memorial is a huge bronze statue of Shevchenko’s summer on a raised hill - from a granite foot a confident figure of a kobzar with his right arm bent in an elbow, which can be considered a warning and education ... tall, bronze weight of the poet - is about 20 tons.
Experts note the high artistic qualities of the Kovel monument Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko and the monument, the history of the monument
Taras Shevchenko visited Kovel and its environs only once - in the fall of 1846 as a full-time artist as part of the archaeological commission to study the effects of Podillya and Volhynia. According to Kovil Taras Shevchenko, there was a special mission from the head of the mission, Professor Mykola Ivanishev, to investigate and map places related to residence in these parts of Moscow fleeing Andrei Korsky. Shevchenko's visit to Kovilchina was just six months before the harsh Caesarean court, and the exile was sold for 10 years to ordinary soldiers without the right to service