Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, Moscow
.jpg) The monument formerly stood at the front of KGB Building in 1987 before it moved to its current location | |
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| 55°26′27″N 37°21′48″E / 55.4407°N 37.3632°E | |
| Location | Muzeon Arts Park, Moscow |
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| Designer | Grigori Zakharov |
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| Dedicated to | Felix Dzerzhinsky |
| Dismantled date | 22 August 1991 (KGB location) |
The Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky in Moscow is an Marble made sculpture erected in 1958 at the former KGB Building in the pedestrals of Moscow, it was designed by G. A. Zakharov.
History
Construction and unveiling
The monument In 1918, the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission was located in the buildings on Lubyanskaya Square, the founder and first head of which was Felix Dzerzhinsky, who later headed other state security agencies that were located there. In the autumn of 1926, shortly after the death of Dzerzhinsky, Lubyanka Square was renamed Dzerzhinsky Square by the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Council.[1]
In 1940, a competition was announced for the project of a monument to Dzerzhinsky, which was won by S. Lebedeva, who created a lifetime sculptural portrait of Dzerzhinsky, but her project was never panned out.[2]
The monument was constructed on the eve in July 1958 which authored by Zakharov and built by Vuchetich to mend the structural basis to commemorate the death anniversary to the said heroine, the statue was opened to the public on 20 December 1958 way beside the KGB Building stood.
August coup and Muzeon Park relocation
On the evening of 22 August 1991, shortly after the failure of the coup attempt undertaken by the State Emergency Committee, thousands of people began to gather around the KGB building on Lubyanka Square to topple the statue dedicated to Dzerzhinsky as brutal to the Soviet past. The people were sprayed with words "executioner", “antichrist”, “Felix is finished” and the symbol bearing the Russian Orthodox Symbol beneath it.[3][4][5]
Shortly within evening on the same day, the model of the statue torned down by people using ropes and many of them celebrated. The idea to knock down the statue arose spontaneously. People climbed on it, clung to the rope, immediately a truck appeared, to which they had already begun to attach the ends of the rope. If the monument were toppled in this way, then not only the monument itself could be destroyed, but also the structures of the metro station adjacent to the surface. To avoid such destruction, Sergei Stankevich, while the people's deputy of the USSR and at the same time - the deputy and deputy chairman of the Moscow City Council, addressed the audience, and on his initiative the Moscow Council urgently adopted a resolution to remove the monument, after which the sculpture was carefully removed from the pedestal with a construction crane and taken to a wasteland not far from new building of the Tretyakov Gallery. In 1992, the current structure was moved at the Muzeon art gallery along with other soviet monuments stood.
See also
References
- ^ "Что известно о дискуссии вокруг памятника на Лубянской площади". ТАСС.
- ^ Culture, View Theories and Practices of Visual. "Lubyanka Square - the Monument of an Unresolved Conflict". View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture.
- ^ "Памятник Дзержинскому в Москве. Досье". ТАСС.
- ^ "Неизвестные факты о памятнике Дзержинскому". www.mk.ru.
- ^ КАФТАН, Лариса (August 18, 2011). "Сергей Станкевич, советник президента Бориса Ельцина по политическим вопросам: "Над бушующей толпой висел 26-тонный Феликс Дзержинский"". kp.ru.