 Very little is known about Schevchenko.We do know that he was a high school teacher in Moscow teaching singing, having also worked as a stagehand at the Bolshoi Theater.In 1904 he traveled to Poltava province and recorded "dumy" (sung epic poems) from the kobzars, in particular Mykhailo Kravchenko, and performed with his bandura in Poltava, Myrhorod, Reshetelivka and other cities.