Отечественные записки
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". In 1843 Hrebinka travelled to Kharkiv and together with Taras Shevchenko he visited Tetyana Volkhovskaya in her manor in Moisivka (near Drabiv). 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.