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1994: Dismantling of Lenin Monument
The monument to Lenin, erected in 1967 on the site of the previously demolished monument to Alexander II, was dismantled in 1994 during the period of socio-economic and political reforms in the country.
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In 1967, a monument to V.I. Lenin, designed by sculptor V.B. Pinchuk and architect S.B. Speransky.
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1947
1936: Artist of the Bolshoi Theater Fyodor Fedorovsky made drawings and models of ruby stars for the Kremlin towers
In 1936, the artist of the Bolshoi Theater Fedor Fedorovsky made drawings and models of ruby stars installed on the tops of the towers of the Moscow Kremlin.
1918: Dismantling of the monument to Alexander II
Since March 1918, the Kremlin became the seat of the Soviet government. The monument to the emperor as a symbol of deposed power was destroyed first. Already in the summer, the figure of Alexander II was removed, the hay and the gallery stood until the end of the 1920s.
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1898
The memorial complex dedicated to Alexander II was built at the initiative of his son Emperor Alexander III in memory of the tsar-reformer, the tsar-liberator, who abolished serfdom in 1861. The monument was laid in 1893 in the southeastern part of the Kremlin over the hillside facing the Moskva River. Architect N.V. Sultanov, sculptor A.M. Opekushin and artist P.V. Zhukovsky took part in its creation. Construction was carried out for five years with nationwide donations.
On August 16, 1898, the monument was inaugurated.
In the center of the monument on a rectangular pedestal was a statue of the emperor, cast in dark bronze. Above it towered a tent hay in the style of architecture XVII with a gilded roof. The inscription was placed on the pedestal: "Emperor Alexander the love of the people." The central figure of the emperor, facing Ivanovo Square, was surrounded on three sides by a through arched gallery, on the arches of which 33 mosaic portraits of Russian sovereigns from St. Vladimir to Nicholas I. The portraits were made according to the sketches of P.V. Zhukovsky - the son of the famous poet.
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