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Teatral'naya ploshchad'
Театральная площадь

Карл Маркс

Karl Marx

Trier 1818 - London 1883
German philosopher
(Wikipedia)

Lev Kerbel'
1961

Description

Granite half figure emerging from the pedestal, 8-meter and 160-ton block of gray granite monolith.

Inscription(s)

On the front of the statue:

ПРОЛЕТАРИИ
ВСЕХ СТРАН,
СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ!

working men
of all countries,
unite!

On the side:

КАРЛУ МАРКСУ
от коммунистической
партии и народов
советского союза

To Karl Marx
The Communist
Party and the People
of the Soviet Union

On two granite blocks behind the statue:

И ИМЯ ЕГО И ДЕЛО ПЕРЕЖИВУТ ВЕКА - ЭНГЕЛЬС	And his name and business endure through the ages - Engels
УЧЕНИЕ МАРКСА ВСЕСИЛЬНО ПОТОМУ ЧТО ОНО ВЕРНО - ЛЕНИН	The teaching of Marx is all-powerful because it is true - Lenin

Annotation

The statue was carved on the spot where it stands from a 200 ton block of granite and was unveiled in 1961.

Sculptor

Lev Yefimovich Kerbel' - Лев Ефимович Кербель (Sumy 1917 - Moscow 2003), Russian sculptor of Soviet realist works (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 35.

Locatie (N 55°45'30" - E 37°37'10") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru063; Photograph: 9 July 2011
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