Yevhen Hrebinka – chief assistant of Taras Shevchenko.

So here we have the Ukrainian hryvna, nominal - 5. The year of issue of this coin is 2012, mint: National Bank of Ukraine, Kiev. Total circulation – 8.000. The coin is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birthday of the poet Evgeny Grebinka.

Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka was born in 2 February 1812, Ubizhyshche (today – Marianivka), Poltava Governorate, died in 15 December 1848, Saint Petersburg. Ukrainian romantic prose writer, poet.

Hrebinka's first published work was the poem Rogdayev pir, appearing in the Ukrainian almanac in Kharkiv in 1831. Beginning in 1837, Hrebinka worked as a teacher of the Russian language in the Noble Regiment, collected works in the Ukrainian language, and was involved in publishing Otechestvennye Zapiski in the magazine's final years.

Hrebinka took kindly to a young artist and serf, Taras Shevchenko, and helped connect him with members of the Saint Petersburg elite, who organized Shevchenko's liberation from serfdom in 1838. He also helped publish Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840. In 1840 Otechestvennye Zapiski published his novella Notes of a student, while Utrenneya zarya published novella Wader. In 1842 he wrote novella Senya.

Hrebinka travelled to Kharkiv in 1843 and together with Taras Shevchenko he visited Tetyana Volkhovskaya in her manor in Moisivka. The same year Otechestvennye Zapiski published his novel Chaikovsky with epigraphs taken out of the Shevchenko's works. In 1844 Hrebinka married Maria Rostenberg and the same year his other novel Doktor was published.