Moscow - it is not just the capital of the Russian Federation, is a majestic city with an incredibly interesting history, ancient monuments, modern shopping centers and a vibrant life, the dream of many provincial inhabitants.Moscow can rightly be called one big attraction.Then wherever you look - everywhere there is a place of great interest for tourists: the Kremlin, Red Square, Arbat, the Tretyakov Gallery and a lot of other objects.One of these is the "tragedy of peoples" - a monument, which is located on Poklonnaya Hill.It is here that we accomplished our journey today.
Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, there are a place dedicated to the victory over the German fascists.His name - Poklonnaya Gora.It is a gently sloping hill, which is located in the western part of the capital, between two rivers - SETUN and Filka.Already in the XVI century, first mentioned the existence of the Poklonnaya Gora.But in those days it was located not in Moscow itself and far beyond its borders.
Today, scientists continue to beat on unraveling the origin of the names of landmarks.The name "mountain" is more or less clear: in central Russia they called every place that is a little above ground.And what about the word "worship," put forward various theories: one of the most popular versions of the judgment is that the name "Bow" came from the word "bow".That bow in those centuries was decided to express their respect and esteem.Travelers arriving or leaving from Moscow, bowing to the city in the place where the monument is located.
Poklonnaya Hill experienced a lot in his life: meeting and after the Crimean Khan Giray Mengli 1508, and the camp of Polish troops in 1612 when they were going to attack Moscow.But in 1812, Napoleon waited key here from the capital of Russia.
Today it is a memorial complex, where there are many monuments dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War."The tragedy of peoples" - a monument, located on the Poklonnaya Hill and deserves the greatest respect.
Tsereteli and his brainchild
Before the description of the monument "The tragedy of peoples" appears in this article, I would like to say a few words about his creator Zurab Tsereteli.The monument is dedicated to the millions of people who are caught up with the death in the gas chambers, concentration camps and ditches.Tsereteli decided to perpetuate the memory of Holocaust victims.The sculptor created his masterpiece exclusively from its own motives.Neither the state nor the municipality of Moscow did sculptor commissioned to create a statue.Tsereteli poured the composition of bronze exclusively for their money, and commissioned his own soul and memory.Zurab survived the war as a child, he saw the death camps, and remember those soldiers who could not come back home.
Create a memorial on Poklonnaya Hill Tsereteli decided during their work in Brazil.
Description of the monument
sculptural composition reaches a height of almost eight meters.It was established in 1997."The tragedy of peoples" - a monument depicting an endless series of people sentenced to death.Grey place consists of naked and exhausted men and women, old people and children.These people differ in height, and like they do nalyso shaved head, face frozen, blank unseeing eyes and lowered his hands.All of them are doomed to silence and are in line for destruction.
Monument on Poklonnaya Hill starts with three figures.That man, a woman and a teenage son.The family should be the first to die.Husband and wife are trying to somehow protect her child: my mother covered his eyes with his hand, the Pope also made an attempt to save him.But all in vain: no one will be able to survive not.All the rest all goes as follows, does not notice each other.Everyone thinks about her - this is their last seconds on earth.
last figure attracts the earth, they are conditional and resemble rocks and blend with granite steles.These 15 plates of different languages of the republics that were part of the Soviet Union, are carved the words "May the memory of them is sacred, but it is preserved through the ages!" And in the last, 16th stele, these words are written in Hebrew.
scandal surrounding the composition
«The tragedy of peoples" - a monument has been controversial opinions among the population of Moscow.They even wrote an appeal to the then measure the city Luzhkov to move the monument to another location.His desire to citizens motivated by the fact that the sculpture is melancholy, mournful feeling catches up, and generally provokes depressing feelings.
people simply demanded that the construction was removed out of sight, if it can not be destroyed at all.As a new home for the monument they called the backyard of the museum.According to them, there he belongs, as not all visitors will be visiting the area.
He will live forever
Poklonnaya Gora (the monument of "The Tragedy of Peoples"), despite the dissatisfaction with the Muscovites, the mind continues to amaze visitors to the capital of its monumentality and grandeur.Powerful work Tsereteli designed to live forever.Strong composition withstood difficult tests, as well as the people to whom it is dedicated, and continues to exist, despite all the harassment and the intention to destroy it and break.
