Немного больше 15)) On September 6, 1817, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky arrived in Moscow. It was cast in St. Petersburg and was delivered by water through Nizhny Novgorod. For the first time in the history of Moscow, a monument was erected in honor of the people's heroes, not the sovereign.Works on the creation of the monument began in 1804. They were led by the Russian sculptor-monumentalist Ivan Petrovich Martos, and the casting was entrusted to Vasily Yekimov, the foundry master of the Academy of Arts. The preparation of the monument required 1100 poods of copper, the melting time of which was about ten hours. The grand opening of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky took place on February 20, 1818. On Red Square, filled with thousands of Muscovites, troops were built, a military parade was held. Under the drumbeat and shouts of "Hurray" from the monument they took off the veil. One of the Moscow newspapers described this event as follows:"During this solemn ceremony the concourse of the inhabitants was incredible; All the shops, the roofs of the Gostiny Dvor, benches arranged deliberately for the nobility near the Kremlin wall, and the very towers of the Kremlin were strewn with people eager to enjoy this new and unusual spectacle. "The monument made a great impression on the audience. On it in a Russian shirt depicts the Nizhny Novgorod headman Kuzma Minin, calling on Dmitry Pozharsky to lead the militia and lead him to save the fatherland. Pozharsky, leaning on the shield, takes the sword from Minin's hands.The pedestal of the monument is made of three solid pieces of granite, brought from Finland, and the famous bas-reliefs "Nizhny Novgorod citizens" and "Expulsion of the Poles", as well as the sculpture of Minin and Pozharsky - from bronze.
On September 6, 1817, a monument to Minin and Pozharsky arrived in Moscow. It was cast in St. Petersburg and was delivered by water through Nizhny Novgorod. For the first time in the history of Moscow, a monument was erected in honor of the people's heroes, not the sovereign.Works on the creation of the monument began in 1804. They were led by the Russian sculptor-monumentalist Ivan Petrovich Martos, and the casting was entrusted to Vasily Yekimov, the foundry master of the Academy of Arts. The preparation of the monument required 1100 poods of copper, the melting time of which was about ten hours. The grand opening of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky took place on February 20, 1818. On Red Square, filled with thousands of Muscovites, troops were built, a military parade was held. Under the drumbeat and shouts of "Hurray" from the monument they took off the veil. One of the Moscow newspapers described this event as follows:"During this solemn ceremony the concourse of the inhabitants was incredible; All the shops, the roofs of the Gostiny Dvor, benches arranged deliberately for the nobility near the Kremlin wall, and the very towers of the Kremlin were strewn with people eager to enjoy this new and unusual spectacle. "The monument made a great impression on the audience. On it in a Russian shirt depicts the Nizhny Novgorod headman Kuzma Minin, calling on Dmitry Pozharsky to lead the militia and lead him to save the fatherland. Pozharsky, leaning on the shield, takes the sword from Minin's hands.The pedestal of the monument is made of three solid pieces of granite, brought from Finland, and the famous bas-reliefs "Nizhny Novgorod citizens" and "Expulsion of the Poles", as well as the sculpture of Minin and Pozharsky - from bronze.