Baryshev Museum T. G. Shevchenko is a museum in the village of Baryshivka (Kyiv region), dedicated to the life and work of Taras Shevchenko. The founder of the Baryshevka Shevchenko Museum is Ukrainian historian and Soviet party figure Vasyl Semenovich Kostenko (1912—2001), who donated his private collection to Baryshevka. After retiring, Vasily Kostenko with the help of local authorities achieved the creation of the Shevchenko Museum in Baryshevka. His collection became the basis of the Baryshev Museum, created in 1987. For many years, Kostenko conducted excursions for visitors. Taras Shevchenko visited Baryshevka in 1843. Shevchenko described his visit to Baryshevka in his story “Walking with pleasure and not without morals”. In Baryshivka, Shevchenko visited the prosecutor Timofiy Nikiforovich Borispolets, who was the father of the artist Platon Borispolets, a poet friend, countryman and fellow student at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. During his stay in Baryshevka, Shevchenko visited the mound, which has survived to this day and is located near the city of Berezan. It is believed that it was here that he wrote his poem “The Excavation of the Grave”.