If the monument to Peter 1 was founded.
Initiative to create a monument to Peter the Great to lay down Catherine II. By his own order, Prince Oleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsin turned to the professors of the Paris Academy of painting and sculpture by Diderot and Voltaire, and Katerina II fully trusted their thoughts. Vіdom_ majstri recommended for ієї robots Etienne-Morіsa Falcone, who worked at that hour as the head sculptor at the porcelain factory. “A new day has a subtle relish, a rose of delicacy, and an hour of uncouthness, suvory, you can’t believe in anything. .. I don’t know cockiness,” wrote Diderot about Falcon.
Etienne-Morіs Falcone create dreams about monumental art and reject the proposition of creating a statue of colossal size without thinking about it. On the 6th of spring 1766, the date of signing the agreement, at some wine-growing robot, it was supposed to be 200 thousand livres, which could be collected with a modest sum - other masters asked for much more. The 50-year-old master came to Russia with the 17-year-old assistant Marie-Ann Collot.
Thoughts about the sight of future sculpture were different. So, the President of the Imperial Academy of Mystics Ivan Ivanovich Belsky, who was cherubing the monument, presenting the sculpture of Peter I, standing at the last time with a rod at the ruci. Katherine II bachiled the emperor, who sat on a horse with a rod or a scepter, and other propositions. So, Diderot, having conceived a monument at the looking fountain with allegorical figures, and sent the state radnik Shtelin to Belsky report description his project, zgіdno z yakim Peter I maw post in polished allegorical statues of Clarity and Pratsiovity, Justice and Peremogi, like kicking the vices of ignorance and Lіnoshchi, Deception and Zazdrіst. Falcone, having seen the traditional image of the monarch-overcome, she was inspired by the image of the allegory. “My monument will be forgiven. There will be no Barbarism, no Love peoples, no separation of the People... I will only be surrounded by a statue of another hero, whom I do not interpret as a great commander, nor a way to overcome, wanting wines, especially, more or less. There is a richer specialty of the creator, legislator, benefactor of his country, and the axis of the її th is required to be shown to people, ”wrote Diderot.
Work on the monument to Peter the Great - Mid-Vershnik
Falcone created a model of sculpture for the Kolishny Timchas's Winter Palace of Elizaveta Petrivnya from 1768 to 1770. From the imperial steeds, two horses of the Oryol breed Kapriz and Diamant were taken. Falcone, shy of painting, marveling like a guards officer, riding horses on the pomist and putting її dibki. Falcone's model of the head of Peter the Great was reworked once again, but he did not reach the praise of Catherine II, and as a result, Marie-Anne Collot successfully knocked out the head of the Mednoy Vershnik. The disguise of Peter I became masculine and free, with wide vodkriti ochima and illumined by a deep thought. For a job, a girl was taken from a penis Russian Academy Mystic and Katherine II granted her a dowager pension of 10,000 livres. The snake under the feet of the horse was the Russian sculptor Fedir Gordiev.
The plaster model of the Midny Vershnik was made before 1778 and the thoughts about the work were ambiguous. Just as Didro was deprived of satisfaction, Catherine II was not worthy of self-selection of the image of the monument.
Vidlittya Midny Vershnik
The sculpture was conceived of colossal expansions, and the livarniks did not take on the task of folding the robot. Foreign majstry for litas vouched for great pennies, and dehto opened the door, saying that there was no turning around. Nareshti, you know the livarnik, master Omelyan Khailov, who took up the letter of the Middle Vershnik. Together with Falcon, the stench picked up a warehouse for the alloy and robbed samples. Folding was due to the fact that the sculpture was small - three points of support and that the thickness of the walls of the front part of the statue was to blame for the bula being small - no more than one centimeter.
Before the first hour, the pipe, like bronze was poured, burst. At the rozpachi Falcone, he broke out of the maisterna, ale maister Khailov did not break his mouth, taking his time and wetting it with water, smearing it with clay and clasping like a patch to the trumpet. Rizikuyuchi his life, zapobіg pozhezhі, wanting to take off the guards of hands and often mischief zіr. The upper part of the Midny Vershnik was still zipped, її happened to be cut. The preparation for the new forging took three more years, and once again it passed away and, in honor of the successful completion of the work, the sculptor in one of the folds of the cloak of Peter I overlaid the inscription “Lip and see Etienne Falcone Parisian 1788”.
Installing the Mid Vershnik
Falcone wanted to install a monument on a pedestal, like a piece of wood, carved from natural shmatka skele. Knowing the need for a shaved with a height of 11.2 meters was even more important, and in the newspaper "St. The villager Semyon Vishnyakov suddenly noticed, who had long remembered the approaching shave of the village of Lakhta and talked about the guardian of the search robots.
Kamin, which weighed close to 1600 tons and the names of the Grim-stone, delivered the cob on the platform to the bank of the Finnish Stream, then by water to the Senatskaya Square. Thousands of people took the fate of the winding and transporting stone. The stone was installed on the platform, which was carried along two parallel gutters, 30 rounded mid-column alloys were placed in the yak. This operation was carried out in the winter hour from the 15th leaf fall of 1769, when the earth was frozen and on the 27th of Birch, 1770, the stone was delivered to the shore of the Finnish inlet. In the autumn, the brila was taken on board the ship, specially prompted by Maystr Grigoriev Korchebnikov, and on 25 spring 1770, the Grim-stone on the birch of the Nevi on Senatskaya Square was blasted to the people.
In 1778, Falconet's blues with Catherine II were left behind, and together with Marie-Anne Collot, they were embarrassed to reach Paris.
The installation of the Midny Vershnik cherubov Fedir Gordiev and 7 Serpniy 1782 to the fate of the urochist of the monument, that yogo creator did not ask for that podium. Prince Oleksandr Golitsin parade at the urochistost, and Katherine II came to the Neva in a boat and climbed onto the balcony to alert the Senate. The Empress wore a crown and purple and gave a sign to open the monument. Under the drumming of the cloth, I will fence off the monument, falling in and the police of the guards passed the embankment of the Nevi.
Monument Midny Vershnik
Falcone, having depicted the position of Peter I at the stepping dynamics, on a staggered horse and cim wants to show not a commander and a overcomer, but a creator and legislator in front of him. The Emperor’s mistress is a simple dress, and the rich saddle’s deputy is a beast’s skin. About the help and the commander, we can talk about the wreath from the laurel and the sword of the belt, which wins the head. The roztashuvannya of the monument on the top of the rock is shown on the hem by Peter difficult, and the snake is a symbol of evil forces. The monument is unique because it has only three points of support. On the pedestal, there was written “TO PETER the first KATERINA, a friend of the year 1782”, and on the other side of that side, the very text of instructions in Latin my language. The weight of the mid-topper is weighed in tons, and the height is five meters.
Midny Vershnik - name
Name mid-summer monument otrimav pіznіshe zavdyakova poemі O.S. Pushkin, wanting a real monument made of bronze.
Legends and Myths about Midny Vershnik
- There is a legend that Peter I, having a cheerful mood, jumped over the Neva on his beloved horse Lisetta. Whooping: “All my God is mine” and jumping over the river. Suddenly shouting tsі w words і tezh buv on the other birch. And the third time you crossed over the Neva, but having washed your eyes and saying: “All my and God” and immediately repentance - so I skam'yaniv on Senatsky Square, in that place, where the Midny Vershnik stands at the same time
- It seems that Peter was ill and lying by the fire and gave up to you, that the Swedes were advancing. Hopping on a horse and wanting to rush to the Nevi at the gate, but then a snake flew up and wrapped around the horse’s legs and zupinila yoga, did not let Peter I cut off the water and bend over. And so stand the Midny Vershnik in this place - a monument Yak serpent vryatuvala Peter I
- Іsnuє kіlka mіfіv і legends, yakіh Petro prophesy: “While I am mіstsі, my place is nothing to be afraid of”. I'm right, the Middle Vershnik, having lost his place at his place, the hour Vytchiznyanoi war 1812 to the fate of that pіd hour of the Great Vіtchiznyаnої war. Under the hour of the blockade of Leningrad, the wines were sheathed with decks and boards and bears were laid on the ground with a pist and land
- Peter I with his hand pointed at the Bik of Sweden, and in the center of Stockholm a monument was erected to Charles XII, the enemy of Peter at Pivnichniy Vyny, whose lion hand was straightened at the Bik of Russia
Tsіkavі facts about the monument Midniy Vershnik
- The transportation of the stone-pedestal was accompanied by difficulties and untransferable furnishings and often blamed emergency situations. For this operation, the whole of Europe strove, and in honor of the delivery of the Grim-stone to the Senate Square, a commemorative medal was issued with the inscription “Zuhvalіst podіbna. Genvarya, 20, 1770"
- Falcone, having conceived a monument without a fence, although the fence was still installed, but has not been preserved to this day. Narazi know people who fill inscriptions on the monument and build a pedestal and Midny Vershnik. It is possible that a fence will be erected near the Midny Vershnik
- In 1909 and 1976, restoration of the Midny Vershnik was carried out. The rest of the trimming, carried out with the help of a din of changes, showed that the frame of the sculpture was being rebuilt at the station. In the middle of the monument, a capsule was laid with a note about the restoration carried out and a newspaper dated 3 April 1976.
The Midny Vershnik near St. Petersburg is the main symbol of the Pivnichnaya capital and pardoned by one of the most important monuments of the city on Senatskaya Square, the names of those tourists come.
"Midny Vershnik" - a monument to the first Russian Emperor Peter I, becoming one of the symbols of St. Petersburg. The holy sanctuary, consecrated to the 20th reign of Empress Katherine II, was celebrated on the 18th sickle (7 sickles according to the old style) 1782 on the Senate Square.
Initiative to create a monument to Peter the Great to lay down Catherine II. By his own order, Prince Oleksandr Mikhailovich Golitsin turned to the professors of the Paris Academy of painting and sculpture by Diderot and Voltaire, and Katerina II fully trusted their thoughts.
Vіdomi majstry recommended for the cієї the robots of Etienne-Morіs Falconet, who long ago dreamed of creating a monumental tvіr. Eskіz from wax was crushed by the master of Paris, and after their arrival in Russia in 1766, the work was done on a plaster model near the statue.
Inspired by the allegorical solution, inspired by youmu in the sharpened Catherine II, Falconet revealed the tsar as "the creator, legislator and benefactor of his land", which "stretches the right-wing woman over the land, that one should be obedient to him." Having entrusted the head of the statue of wines to the model of his student Marie Ann Collot, and then in the course of time he introduced changes into the image, pragmatically hang in the person of Peter the thought of that power.
The fork of the monument looked like a scythe of 1774. Ale vikonati її at a time, like having opened Falcon, did not go far. Under an hour of forging, cracks appeared in the livar form, through which rare metal became twisted. The main began to burn.
The self-confidence and guilt of the livar master Omelyan Khailov was allowed to extinguish the half-light, but the entire upper part of the fork in the top of the knee and the chest of the horse to their heads was wrongly zipped, and її happened to be cut. In an hour between the first and other forks, the maistra laid and minted the opening, which was left at the top of the monument in the pipes (sprues), after which rare metal was given to the form, and bronze was polished. The upper part of the statue looked like it was built in 1777.
Then, the joining of two parts of the sculpture and the laying of the seam between them, carving, polishing and patination of bronze began. In 1778, the construction of the monument was basically completed. On a riddle about Tse Falcon, having vibrated on one of the folds of the cloak of Peter I, he wrote in Latin language: "Drinking and watching Etienne Falconet, a Parisian 1778". The sculptor has left the top sickle of this fate in Russia, without having minted the monument.
Watch over the progress of the work from the construction of the monument following the arrival of the French sculptor from Russia and the architect Yury Felten.
The sculptor Fyodor Gordiev, the sculptor Fyodor Gordiev, symbolizes arrogance, steel and anger, serves as a support for the monument.
The lower sculpture - a giant granite shaved, so called thunder-stone, was found in 1768 on the birch of the Finnish tributary, near the village of Kinna Lakhta. The delivery of the colossal monolith with a mass of about 1.6 thousand tons to the month of the construction of the monument was completed in 1770. A bunch of yogo was transported dry on a platform with stinger skids, yak through 32 bronze coils spiraled on portable rails, laid on a prepared surface, and then on a specially prompted barge. On the little one of the architect Yuriy Felten, the stone was given the shape of a skele, as a result, the shape of the rosemary changed significantly. On the pedestal, in Russian and Latin language, there is an inscription: "To Peter the First, Katerina Druga." The installation of the monument cheruvav was done by the sculptor Gordeev.
The height of the sculpture of Peter I is 5.35 meters, the height of the pedestal is 5.1 meters, the height of the pedestal is 8.5 meters.
At the statue of Peter, who calms the horse on the steep top of the rock, the unity of peace and calmness is miraculously conveyed; The royally proud seating of the king, the commanding gesture of the hand, the turn of the thrown head in a laurel wreath, which emphasize the opir of the elements and the affirmation of the sovereign will, are especially great for the monument.
A monumental statue of a horseman, with his hand clutching the reins of a horse stout in a strong blow, symbolizes the growth of power of Russia.
The place of roztashuvannya of the monument to Peter the Great on the Senate Square was chosen unfailingly. The order to be founded by the emperor is the Admiralty, which is the head legislative body of Tsarist Russia, the Senate. Katherine II leaned on the placement of the monument near the center of the Senate Square. The author of the sculpture, Etienne Falcone, created it in his own way, placing the monument closer to the Nevi.
Senate Square after the monument was named Petrovsk, in 1925-2008 it was called Decembrist Square. In 2008, the rotation changed the name of Senatsk.
Zavdyaks to Oleksandr Pushkin, a kind of victorist for a fantastic story about a revived monument at the hour of a shocked place near his own house, the bronze monument of Peter.
At the rocks of the Great Vitchiznyanoy war (1941-1945) the monument was covered with bears with a squeak, on top of which there was a wooden case.
"Midniy Vershnik" has been repeatedly restored. Zokrema, in 1909, water was drained, which had accumulated in the middle of the monument, and cracks were walled up; The complex of restoration works was built in 1976.
The monument to Peter I becomes an invisible part of the ensemble to the center of the place.
At the Day of the City near St. Petersburg, the official svyatkovi traditionally come to the Senate Square.
Material of preparations on the basis of RIA information
The urochist ceremony of the unveiling of the monument to Peter the Great, which at the same time was taken as the Midden Vershnik, took place on September 18, 1782. Today's reminder is a special reminder, a tourist route cannot do without it. Literally from the moment of vіdkrittya vіn buv povitiy mystical veil, and from the fates the truth and fantastic guesses about the new one were mixed up in one line, hiding the story. the site propagates to guess the most important details from the "biography" of the Midny Vershnik.
Misce was taken by Catherine II herself
The site of the erection of the monument is perhaps the only thing that the Mayzhe did not intersect during its creation. Katerina ordered to place a monument on the Senate Square, the Admiralty was founded by Peter I and the head of the legislature at that time was the legislator of Russia - the Senate. True, the queen wanted to build a monument near the center of the square, but the sculptor erected it in his own way and put the pedestal closer to the Nevi.
On the back of the head, in every place, they erected a monument to Catherine herself, but she respected the correct memory of the founder of St. Petersburg until the 100th anniversary of the succession to the throne.
For the preparation of such a grandiose undertaking, a right master was needed, and for the recommendation of her friends, Denis Didro and Voltaire, Katerina called to Russia the sculptor Etienne-Moris Falconet, the author of "Cupid, who threatens", which is the best of the sculptor. At that time, the artist had already reached 50 years, he had a rich track record, but he had not yet achieved such monumental achievements.
Falcone realized that this yogo tver could go down in history, and did not hesitate to compete with the empress. For example, she vimagala, that Petro sat on a horse with a rod and a scepter at the hands, like a Roman emperor. The right hand of Katerina Ivan Betskaya put the figure on the pedestal in full view from the commander's baton at the hand. And Denis Diderot took off, piercing the monument at the looking fountain with allegorical figures. It came to such subtleties that "the right eye of Peter can be directed to the Admiralty, and the left - to the wake of the Twelve Collegia." Ale Falcon standing on his own. At the contract, which I signed, it was about those that the monument is to be formed "the head rank of the statue of a colossal size".
Falcone, declaring that Peter's hand would not have a suitable scepter. Photo: AIF / Ksenia Matveeva
“I’ll get rid of a statue of another hero, whom I don’t interpret as a great commander, or as a survivor, wanting to win, obviously, but this and that. There is a richer specialty of the creator, legislator, benefactor of his country, and the axis of її is required to be shown to people. My tsar does not hold the rod, he stretches out his blessed rule over the country, which is about him. Vіn podnimaєtsya on the mountain skelі, scho to serve you as a p'edestal, is a symbol of overcoming difficulties, ”Falconet wrote in one of the leaves.
Stone for the pedestal
Sound to the pedestal, give significantly less respect, lower to the monument. Ale, at the vapadku with the Middle Vershnik, did not go wrong. Yogo pedestal, perhaps, the only one in the history of monumental sculpture may be named after - Thunder-stone. Like a metaphorical “skeleton” of Falcone, although it was not easy to know the stone of a monolithic breed, it was not easy to know the stone of a similar size. Then in the newspaper "St. Petersburg Vіdomosti" there was a slander, sent to all private persons, as if they were ready to vilamati here and bring them to St. Petersburg.
Transportation of "Thunder-stone" at the presence of Catherine II. Engraving by I.F. Shleya z baby Yu.M. Felten. 1770 rec. Photo: Public Domain
Vidpovіv is a villager Semyon Vishnyakov, who was busy supplying a budіvelny stone to St. Petersburg. For a long time, he had a bula on the example of a shave in the Lahti region, but he didn’t have a tool to cut it. De same lying Grim-stone, unbeknownst to me. Possibly, not far from the village of Lysii Nis. The documents lost their vіdomostі, scho the stone road to the place occupied a great verst, that's close to 8.5 kilometers.
For the transportation of the skeleton, following the recommendations of Ivan Betsky, a special car was disassembled, thousands of people took the fate of the transported people. The stone weighed 2400 tons, they transported yoga collection, so that the soil was not sifted under it. The operation to relocate Trival from 15 leaf fall 1769 to 27 birch 1770, after which on the birch of the Finnish inflow the stone was taken on board the ship and brought to Senatskaya Square on 26 spring.
Chi is not medium, but bronze
The monument is traditionally called the Middle Vershnik light hand Pushkin, hoch vіdlitiy vіn from bronze. The maisternya was clad near the huge throne room of the wooden Winter Palace of Elizaveta Petrivna. The sculptor, having thought through the skin drіbnitsyu and having made a colossal robot.
“If I have thought of the vigor of yoga, I will complete my gallop, standing up, which was not in my memory, even less in my mind, so that I could instantly rely on the new one. To create an accurate model, I am inspired by nature. For whom I zveliv pobuduvat maidanchik, with which I added that very sickly, which maw my pedestal. A dekilka inch larger or smaller in the frailty would have made significant changes in Russian creatures. I have ridden the rider’s gallops more than once, but over a hundred different tricks of different horses, ”Falconet wrote.
One of the most famous illustrations before Pushkin's "Midniy Vershnik" was painted by Oleksandr Benois. Photo: Public Domain
Work on a Trival sculpture model from 1768 to 1770. Above the head of Peter, the young student of Falcone, Marie Ann Collot, was practising, and Fedir Gordiev was waving the snake under the horse’s hoard. Marie Ann was accepted as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences for her work, and Catherine II awarded her a daughter's pension of 10,000 livres.
The appearance of the statue took 8 years
The fork of the statue was erected in 1774 for folding technology, as if the underlay of the vag allowed the figure to be balanced on three points of support. Ale first, the sample appeared not far away - the pipe with baked bronze burst, and the upper part of the sculpture was plastered. Until another sproby had a chance to get ready for three years. Postiyni negarizda and zrivi terms zipsuval vіdnosiny between Falconet and Katerina, and at the spring of 1778 the sculptor left the place, not reaching the completion of the work on the monument. Midny Vershnik appeared the rest of creation yoga life. Before the speech, on one of the folds of the cloak of Peter I, one can see the inscription “Lip and wake up Etienne Falcone Parisian 1778”.
View of the monument to Peter I on the Senate Square of St. Petersburg. Papier, engraving with a cut. Mid-nineteenth century Photo: Public Domain / Melnikov A.K.
The installation of the Midny Vershnik on the pedestal was carried out by the architect Fedir Gordiev. Following Katerina's order, they wrote "Katerina II to Peter I" on the pedestal. The urochist of the monument was built on the 7th sickle, 1782. In honor of her demise, the empress saw a manifesto about a global amnesty, and also ordered to win silver medals and silver medals from yoga images. One gold and one silver medal of Catherine II was ruled by Falcone, who took it from the hands of Prince Golitsin in 1783.
The monument survived three battles
The middle leader of the “proishovs” after three wars without trouble, even if he is known to be on hand for shelling the mission. During the war of 1812, a legend sprang up, as they say, that Alexander I punished the evacuation of the monument to the Vologda province, if the threat of the sacking of St.
The blockade Midny Vershnik survived under the bears out of the blue. Photo: AIF / Yana Khvatova
Like Major Baturin, he reached out to an audience with Prince Golitsin and recited a yoma about a dream, re-watching yogo. Nibito wins, like Petro on the Senate Square, from the pedestal and the street to the residence of the king on Kam'yany Ostrov. “Young man, what have you done to my Russia,” it seems to you Petro, “while I am in my place, there is nothing for my place to be afraid of!” How to certify retelling, Golitsin retelling the sovereign's dream, and that he told the order about the evacuation of the monument.
persha light war as a result, the great Peter did not bump into himself, and at the hour of the Great Veterinary War, the Midland leader was sheathed with decks and boards, the monument was covered with bears with sand and earth. So they erected a monument to Lenin at the Finlyandsky railway station with those other great monuments, which could not be evacuated.
One of the most famous monuments of St. Petersburg and all Russia is the Monument to Peter the Great by Etienne Falcone, also known as the "Midny Vershnik". The monument was erected by the decisions of Katerini II. On the new one it says “To Peter the First Katerina Druga. Lita 1782".
History of the sculpture "Midny Vershnik"
The sculpture was installed on the Senate Square Constitutional Court, not far from St. Isaac's Cathedral and the Admiralty.
The French sculptor Falcone was requested to work on the monument. A contract with him was signed by the Russian envoy at Paris, Dmitro Golitsin, at the sickle of 1766. The robots over the monument tried to finish it for a long time. The model of the cinema statue was made in 1768-1770.
Only in 1775 the first turn of the sculpture was born.
In 1777, there were some details that did not appear during the first forking.
In 1778 the sculptor Falcone left Russia.
The work is being completed by the architect Yu. M. Felten.
Large-scale robots and preparations for the p'edestal for the monument.
A suitable stone of knowledge on the outskirts of the village of Kinna Lakhta.
The gigantic "Grim-stone" can stretch 7855 meters on the ground, then we will take on a specially motivated ship, transport it through the Finnish flood, and fly on the left birch of the Nevi.
Having occupied the whole whole way, Mayzhe Rik.
The pedestal of the monument "Midniy Vershnik"
The pedestal of the monument symbolizes nature, barbarism, and the statue of Peter is guilty of depicting the power of civilization, reason, human will over wild nature. Therefore, behind the idea of the Empress, the stone maw buti is uncouth.
The prote sculptor and architect were respected otherwise. As a result, the Grim-stone was used in the application of trochs and rosemary.
The urochist of the monument was built on the 7 sickle (18 sickle), 1782 year.
The height of the monument was 10.4 meters.
From that hour, the monument did not flood Senatskaya Square.
Prote 1812 to the fate of the moment tse robiti. At that time, Napoleon planned to evacuate the place and the monument from the capital, so that the enemy could not get away with wine.
True, we later believed that as long as the founder of the place is located in the center of St. Petersburg, the enemy is not safe. The monument was not moved.
At Pushkin’s work “Midniy Vershnik” (as I gave the people’s name to the monument, regardless of those who were victorious from bronze), the monument descends from the pedestal and marries an official Eugen, which proves that the Emperor is guilty of yoga through those that having fallen asleep, the place is not there.
On the eve of the Great Vitchiznyanoi war and the blockade of Leningrad, a special protection was installed for the monument, so that the wine would not suffer from shelling and bombardment.
Monument to Peter the First - the head memo of St. Petersburg
Without a monument to Peter I, it is impossible to see today's Petersburg. This is one of the main memorials of the city, as if obov'yazkovo followed a beat, seeing the pivnichnu capital.
And the main monument to Peter I is the very place of St. Petersburg and the new cordon of the country, which turned into the Russian Empire for the first time.
Description
Monument to Emperor Peter I in front of the Mikhailovsky Castle - the first cinema sculpture, vikonan for the canons European art in the images of prominent historical features. Walking along the Maple Alley, we drank in the romantic place, the statue of the reformer tsar was installed on a high and folding vikonan pedestal. Far behind her through a small passage, impregnable ditch, filled with water, that place (on the back of the cob) in front of us grows the bulk of the Mikhailovsky castle, which is an unforgettable sight.Tsіkava istorіya of creation of the monument to Peter the Great. The Italian sculptor Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, having conceived the idea of erecting a monument on Kolezsky Square on the Strilts of Vasilevsky Island, as at that time was the head administrative center of St. Petersburg. Work on the model of the Trival monument 5 years. Скульптора надихнули кращі зразки кінних статуй часів античної Римської імперії (кінна статуя Марка Аврелія на Капітолійській площі в Римі) та епохи Відродження (кінна статуя кондотьєра Еразмо де Нарні на прізвисько Гаттамелата роботи скульптора До4 Майстри різних історичних епох досягли при зображенні великих воєначальників, переможців, творців Proud, knowing their own worth, people created the history of the world.
The emperor did not have a chance to make a sculpture in his life. Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli did not manage to bring his right to the end, having continued the work of yoga son Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. At the livarny form, the broken father, the son of the team with the Russian and Italian maisters, having made the forks of the statue. The end of the forging was in 1747. Robots were minted in front, which were checked until the end of the 1750s.
The share of the movie statue for some hour was ruined by the swirl of turbulent historical podia that emerged in the Russian Empire in the eighteenth century. Vіyni, chіnі vіntsenosnyh osіb vydbilisya on the camp of the monument is not better.
Unexpectedly after the ascension to the Russian throne of Emperor Paul I in 1796, the sovereign punished the creation of a p'destal for a movie statue and put a monument to Peter I in front of the Mikhailovsky Castle - the head residence of the royal family.
The project was to be built by the Italian Vincenzo Brenna, the head alarm clock and the architect of the Mikhailovsky Castle. Emperor Paul I, having shown a lively interest and active I create activity under the hour of the creation of the pedestal. As a result of the creative talent, craftsmanship of kamenerizivs and livarniks, gentry zasils of Russian philanthropists, thoughtful curiosity of the monarch, a unique cicava composition beautiful movie statues on such a wonderful pedestal. Serdobolsky granite, white and colorful Ruskolsky, rozhevy tivdiysky, black Italian marmuri, natural stone restorations were stoked during the design of the modern decoration of the p'edestal.
On the front side of the pedestal, Emperor Pavlo I, having punished the viconate, wrote “Great-great-grandson”. On the sides of the pedestal, the emperor ordered to depict on bronze bas-reliefs the Battle of Poltava of the Russian army under the command of Emperor Peter I with the army of the Swedish king Charles XII (1709) and to board the Swedish ships at the Gangut military base (1714). The idea of placing a bas-relief depicting the most important military and historical figures of the era of Peter the Great belongs to the architect Vincenzo Brenna. The residual project of the pedestal was developed by the professor of architecture F.I. Volkov. The bas-relief was created by the sculptor I. Terebenev, V. Demut-Malinovsky, I. Moiseev under the ceramics of M. I. Kozlovsky. Having prepared the pedestal, the helper of the architect Larion Shestikov.
Livarni and restoration works from the preparation of bas-reliefs and the restoration of the affected parts of the film statue were created by the master V. P. Ekimov. The French sculptor Pier Anzhi gilded the letters, dedicate them to the models of military trophies, eagles with crowns, embellished at the upper part of the front side of the pedestal, a wreath on the head of the emperor.
20 leaf fall 1800 year, the erection of the monument to Peter I in front of the Mikhailovsky Castle was completed. Tsya urochist podia became for the life of Emperor Paul I.
Wonderful sculpture, conceived in the era of the Peter the Great Baroque, can be collected in your own time. The figure of a horse, vikonan for the canons of the shortest classical zrazkіv, for the її zagalї static, vіdіznyаєєzhavіstyu vіdіznyаєєєєє in the turn of the head, staging nіg, decorative interpretation of the mane and tail. Emperor Petro is depicted at the svyatkovy Viyskian obladunkas as if to lie down for the Tsar-peremoztsyu, his head is covered with a laurel wreath - a symbol of imperial power, on the shoulders of the sovereign mantiya. Petro sit on a horse, proudly straightening his back, looking ahead of his straightening, the whole image of the emperor of spoveniya gіdnosti and majestic calmness. Vіn razumіє znachennya svoєї svoobistosі іstorії svіtu svіtu svogo people.
The monument to Peter the Great in front of the Mikhailovsky Castle is one of the most famous monuments, creating the glory of St. Petersburg.
