[Professor I. Buial's'kyĭ--one of teachers of T. Shevchenko].

The article shows achievements of I. Buyalsky in scientific and professional activity, and also his passion in art. I. Buyalsky was one of the most famous anatomists and surgeons of the Russian Empire and Europe in his days. While teaching in the Academy of Arts, T. Shevchenko was listening to the lectures of Professor I. Buyalsky. Taras Shevchenko remembered this respected professor kindly, what was reflected in his pictures and the story "A Painter".