Monument to Anna Akhmatova
In 2006, a grand opening ceremony of the monument to Anna Akhmatova took place on a small square between Voskresenskaya Embankment and Shpalernaya Street.
Address:
St. Petersburg, shpalernaya 40a
The sculpture is made of bronze; the material used to create the pedestal was polished red-black granite.
The height of the statue together with the pedestal is slightly less than five meters. Lines from Akhmatova’s “Requiem” are inscribed on the pedestal. The opening of the monument took place on the 40th anniversary of Akhmatova’s death.
The official ceremony took place on December 18. The first competition of designs for a monument to the heroine of the Silver Age was held in the fall of 1997, then everyone could participate in it.
Among the likely places for installation were the corner of Shpalernaya Street and Liteiny Prospekt; there were also proposals to erect a monument near house number 40 on Shpalernaya, and, against the will of the poetess herself, near the Fountain House. A year after this competition, another one took place.
Only professional sculptors took part in it. And it was based on its results that the project of sculptor G.V. Dodonova and architect V.A. Reppo was chosen as the project for the future monument. The money for the implementation of this project was allocated by a resident of the city, Yu. Yu. Zhorno. But only a few years later the government of St. Petersburg adopted a resolution on the construction of a monument, and by 2005 the design of the monument had already been finally approved. According to the design of the author of the monument, Akhmatova is looking at the Kresty prison, standing on the other bank of the Neva.
Within its walls in 38-39, Anna Andreevna’s son, Lev Gumilyov, was imprisoned, and this was a very tragic time for the poetess. Like hundreds of other women, she stood in huge lines for hours in order to see her loved one and give him a package. Perhaps this sculpture is one of the most expressive in the city. The three-meter bronze figure, thin, fragile, full of spirituality, attracts the eye. Although this is not the first monument to Anna Akhmatova in St. Petersburg, it was its authors, in the opinion of many, who managed to fully convey the scale of the poetess’s personality.
The height of the statue together with the pedestal is slightly less than five meters. Lines from Akhmatova’s “Requiem” are inscribed on the pedestal. The opening of the monument took place on the 40th anniversary of Akhmatova’s death.
The official ceremony took place on December 18. The first competition of designs for a monument to the heroine of the Silver Age was held in the fall of 1997, then everyone could participate in it.
Among the likely places for installation were the corner of Shpalernaya Street and Liteiny Prospekt; there were also proposals to erect a monument near house number 40 on Shpalernaya, and, against the will of the poetess herself, near the Fountain House. A year after this competition, another one took place.
Only professional sculptors took part in it. And it was based on its results that the project of sculptor G.V. Dodonova and architect V.A. Reppo was chosen as the project for the future monument. The money for the implementation of this project was allocated by a resident of the city, Yu. Yu. Zhorno. But only a few years later the government of St. Petersburg adopted a resolution on the construction of a monument, and by 2005 the design of the monument had already been finally approved. According to the design of the author of the monument, Akhmatova is looking at the Kresty prison, standing on the other bank of the Neva.
Within its walls in 38-39, Anna Andreevna’s son, Lev Gumilyov, was imprisoned, and this was a very tragic time for the poetess. Like hundreds of other women, she stood in huge lines for hours in order to see her loved one and give him a package. Perhaps this sculpture is one of the most expressive in the city. The three-meter bronze figure, thin, fragile, full of spirituality, attracts the eye. Although this is not the first monument to Anna Akhmatova in St. Petersburg, it was its authors, in the opinion of many, who managed to fully convey the scale of the poetess’s personality.
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