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Nikitskiye Vorota ploshchad'
Никитские Ворота площадь

Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев

Kliment Arkad'yevich Timiryazev

St. Petersburg 1843 - Moscow 1920
Russian botanist and physiologist
(Wikipedia)

Sergey Merkurov
1923

Moscow - Москва / Климент Аркадьевич Тимирязев

Description

Statue of Timiryazev in the mantle of Honorary Doctor, University of Cambridge, carved from a single block of Swedish granite.

Inscription(s)

К.А. ТИМИРЯЗЕВ

БОРЦУ
И МЫСЛИТЕЛЮ

To K.A. Timiryazev

fighter
and thinker

Sculptor

Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov - Сергей Дмитриевич Меркуров (Aleksandropol' 1881 - Moscow 1952), Soviet Russian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 23.

Locatie (N 55°45'28" - E 37°35'54") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru087; Photograph: 10 July 2011
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