monument to Krylov in the Summer Garden of St. Petersburg was established in 1855, eleven years after the death of the great Russian fabulist.It is installed before the tea house, and it should be noted that this site was not chosen at once.First sculptural wanted to put near the public library - the last job of the writer, then close to the University building on Vasilyevsky Island Northern Capital.It is also an option for the placement of the monument in the Necropolis of Artists (the burial place of Krylov).But in the end, it was decided to put the sculptural group in the Summer Garden, where he loved to walk fabulist and probably thinking about subjects of their works.
Many Russian celebrities were self-taught
famous writer, journalist, academic, Ivan Krylov, monuments which are now to be found not only in St. Petersburg, was born in the family of a retired military in 1769.His career began in the Urals and in Tver, where the family lived for more than poor.Interestingly, the great Russian writer and have not received education.His knowledge of two foreign languages, literature and mathematics most enlightened man of his time was required to educate themselves and work at an early age in a post podkantselyarista.
monument took man
monument to Ivan Krylov whose works during his lifetime were printed abroad (in Paris), represent human life.It is in his mature years the writer came to glory and prosperity.In his youth he worked as a petty official, after moving to St. Petersburg.At fourteen, he wrote the libretto for the opera "Kofeynitsa" dedicated to the mores of small provincial officials, which the writer knew for his own life.Closer to its thirtieth anniversary, he produces several comedies, which, however, do not have success, publishes the journal in which denounces the evils of civil servants ("Mail spirits").
They were unhappy with the Russian rulers
In 1792, Ivan Krylov, the monuments are installed in Moscow, Tver and Novosibirsk, begins to engage in political satire, so successful that it drew the attention of the Empress Catherine II, which leadsMoving to a journalist from St. Petersburg to Riga and Moscow in connection with the discontent of the first persons of the state.In the next 10 years Krylov moves from journalistic practice and travels extensively, visiting Ukraine, Tambov, Saratov and other cities.
After the death of Empress Krylov became secretary of Prince Golitsyn and his children's teacher, wrote comedies, including anti-government ("subtype or triumph"), translates the fables of La Fontaine and wrote their own works of this genre.And 1808 has issued seventeen fables, which include the prince's "The Elephant and the lap-dogs."
Writer created and translated about 200 fables
monument to Krylov in the Summer Garden, P. Klodt made, has as its foundation the granite cube, which made the bas-reliefs with scenes most famous writer of fables, where the fable is a work in verse orprose, which contains any moral (at the beginning or end).In this genre talent Krylov expressed most clearly.In all, he wrote and translated about 200 fables, among which first dominated the motives of translations from the French, and then there were the unique stories that reflect the realities of Russian life at that time.
monument to Krylov's fables and their creator was made for donations of fans of his work.Admirers of his talent as a writer helped in the publication of his works.Beginning in 1809, Krylov was released nine books containing the above two hundred fables.And in 1825, Count Orlov published at his own expense in the French capital two volumes of essays on Italian fabulist, French and Russian.In the last years of his life Krylov was appointed state councilor, a good pension in the amount of six thousand, and led fairly reclusive life slyvya crank that allowed him to engage in creative work without interference.
Zoo home sculptor Klodt
monument to Krylov in the Summer Garden gives the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the stories of thirty-six of his fables.It is known that the sculptor Klodt was a very meticulous man and master.Therefore, to literary characters to get the most realistic, he ordered live animals, which are located in the yard and in the house of the sculptor.There are cats, dogs, donkeys, horses, cranes, frogs and even the wolf, the bear and the bear.Klodt heroically endured a similar neighborhood, with the exception of a goat, which he did not want to be under one roof, maybe because of the smell.This "model" led him to a woman who lived nearby.And, as the legend goes, a goat strongly refused to go there, where there were predators and pose as a sitter.
Contemporaries of St. Petersburg monument
Where there is a monument to Krylov in St. Petersburg, visited by many of his contemporaries who have left reviews about the monument, sometimes peculiar.For example, in the guide at the time indicated that the writer depicted "truthful."Mike poet wrote a poem about a sculptural composition in which he points out that embodied in metal fabulist looks like a grandfather telling him who came to the people and children of the nonsense and the strangeness of the animals.Satirist P. Schumacher taunted the monument to Krylov in the Summer Garden displays as a writer "with granite heights" looks at the frolicking children and thinks, "Oh nice guys, how well, having grown up, you brutes."Taras Shevchenko also did not like the idea of the sculptor, and he found a monument intended for children but not for adults.However, this sculpture is in the Summer Garden for almost 160 years, consistently delighting visitors.
Where monument grandfather Krylov in Moscow?The most famous monument, visited by tourists, is, of course, at Patriarch's Ponds.However, a unique monument to the writer to be found in ordinary courts of Moscow.More recently, in 2013, Andrew Aseryants, sculptor, performed two compositions based on the legendary "Elephant and Pug" and "The Fox and the Crow."In the area of Kolomenskoye in the yard of the house on the street Shipbuilding, you can see quite a big elephant, which is aligned for small pug, and a crow sitting on a pole with cheese is not lost and waiting at the bottom of a fox.In addition, you can find sculptures typewriter and a sheet of paper with pen and ink.
author and the characters of his works at the Patriarch
Monument Krylov at Patriarch's Ponds set much earlier than the figures on the street Shipbuilding.It was created of architects and sculptors Mitlyansky Chaltykyan and Drevin.The composition was established in 1976 and is a fabulist, sitting imposingly in the chair, which is located at some distance from the characters in his works.Here you can find space in the passing elephant and grated to shine Moska, the duo Pava and crows, which periodically couple manage to attach a padlock, a marriage certificate.Popularity of the nose and ears of the wolf in the fable "The Wolf and the Lamb", while the lamb is almost entirely worn.Visitors once again like to rub the nose of the fox in the fable, as the crow molds polished gold hands numerous passers cheese.
Monument Krylov at Patriarch reflects people aged casually dressed.It is believed that the sculptors just noticed his lifetime habit of a great writer is not too interested in the world around him, except for the gastronomic pleasures.Meals Ivan Andreyevich, according to contemporaries, really loved.A mirror may be looked infrequently, unlike his character - Monkeys, which also presented at the Patriarch with his reflection.
part of the composition may be present in an environment sculpture
possible sculptors figures from fables at the Patriarch, as well as once the master Klodt, not very fond of goats, as the composition dedicated to the product of the "Quartet", highlighted the monkey,bear and a donkey, while horned character only "traced" on the metal sheet.Private "Stella" is devoted to the relationship of a couple of the famous fable of "The Cuckoo and a rooster."Here we can see a rooster in a bow tie and admired friend.But the sparrow, who said the words of mutual boast in the composition is observed.Maybe he is in flocks of sparrows that fly back and forth across the park pond.
Pig, spoiling tree and monkey with glasses and snaps
Among the many green spaces, and there is one metal - it's oak, the roots of which undermines the well-fed pigs from work "pig under an oak tree."In accordance with the text of this tree a hundred years, while among the vegetation around may be the older instances, as in the former manor park patriarch Herman was broken in the early nineteenth century.And in it there are many monkeys, including one that had problems with his vision, but do not know how to handle the points on which the arch of the monument couple also like to strengthen the locks.
Tourists found no mystery next to the monument to Krylov
not known whether there is a real nightingales in the park, but the long-eared "critic" of the fable 'Ass and the Nightingale "nestled comfortably in a chair with his staff on one of the parts of the sculpture.Birds in the green zone abound, so objects for a lot of criticism possible.Monument to Krylov at Patriarch's Ponds is located in a mystical place.Here, the events developed from Bulgakov's novel "Master and Margarita".Alley, where Berlioz met Woland and his retinue, is very close.But tourists have visited here note that no mystery these days they do not notice.Just park where her grandmother walk with the children, Russian tourists and, of course, aliens.Today, the park is big enough undeveloped modern children's playground and there are no stalls with the words "Beer and water," as in Bulgakov's work.
to know and remember
Krylov monuments in different cities (Tver, Novosibirsk) have been established in the Soviet period in the history of modern Russia.In particular, Tver sculpture was opened on the centenary of the death of the master in 1959 on the same street of the city (the anniversary date came in the 1944 war).There fabulist portrayed in a thoughtful pose, standing on a pedestal almost three-meter (figure itself is growing four meters) in the middle of the streets, where he spent his younger years.In 2010, in the city of science Novosibirsk, fabulist who never visited, his bust was installed quite youthful appearance.It is also located on the same street, people to remember the person who, according to Gogol, embody the wisdom of the people.
