"Reconciliation" is restless. The public monument to the victims of the Civil War in St. Petersburg will find a permanent home.
The "Reconciliation" monument, dedicated to the memory of participants in the Civil War on both sides, will be moved to the Lyubashinsky Garden in St. Petersburg. The monument's creator, an engineer, reached an agreement with the authorities. Nikolai Sudzilovsky and local historians.
As the author of the monument and the head of the local history department notes project "Toloka" St. Petersburg resident Alexander, Lyubashinsky Garden was chosen as the location for the monument as the most apolitical place.
“I simply don’t want the monument and the space where it will be located to be the cause of controversy and division for political or any other reasons.”- He explained Sudzilovsky.
The monument is a granite boulder, topped with a crown of thorns, a Budyonovka rifle severed by a saber, and a White Guard officer's cap pierced by a bullet. A poem by the poetess is inscribed beneath them. Zoya Bobkova:
“We are one people, one country,
There's no escape from this,
Even if it breaks your heart
"Civil War in Two."
The monument was created almost 30 years ago and was originally intended to be placed in GatchinaHowever, the Veterans' Council opposed it: they disliked the fact that a helmet with the Order of the Red Star was placed on a boulder next to a White Guard cap. School No. 137 took over the monument and unveiled it in 1997.
In 2012, the stone was moved due to the construction of a fence. It ended up in the security zone of Teploseti and Rosseti, and it will have to be removed again. It is expected to be reinstalled in its new location by May of next year. Before then, the boulder must receive official monument status, and the Budenovka hat and cap must be restored.
Previously "NeMoscow" Wrote about the find in a seaside village: a tombstone of a civil war veteran and South Korean hero was discovered there. Hwang Won Ho. He fought for the establishment of Soviet power. The tombstone was preserved. And in Rostov-on-Don dismantled a monument to one of the main leaders of the White Guard movement during the Civil War.
Photo: Nikolai Sudzilovsky
