Monument to M.B. Barclay de Tolly
In 1813, Mikhail Kutuzov was buried in the Kazan Cathedral. After this, the temple began to be considered a monument to the Patriotic War of 1812. And when it was necessary to erect a monument to the great commander, there was not even a question about where this place would be.
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Address: St. Petersburg, Kazanskaya Square.
In 1818, Field Marshal General Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly died.
Under his leadership, Russian soldiers liberated Europe from Napoleon and his henchmen. Karl Marx considered him a persistent person who was full of determination. E. Schmidt von der Launitz, a sculptor with whom they signed a 5-year contract to sculpt full-length monuments to Kutuzov and Mikhail Bogdanovich, turned out to be absolutely mediocre.
He, of course, presented variants of models for future sculptures in 1827, but they were extremely unsuccessful. He was removed from the order. After Launitz's failure, work on the monuments was transferred to the Academy of Arts.
A competition was announced, but all the sculptors, under various pretexts, refused this project. All of them were afraid of not being able to cope with the main conditions - to make commanders with edged weapons, with staffs in their hands, and also in modern uniforms. Only in mid-1828 were they able to find those who would take on the project with full responsibility.
These were Galberg and Orlovsky - graduates of the Academy of Arts. In the end, only Boris Ivanovich Orlovsky remained, since Galdberg refused to make the commanders realistic. At the age of 16, Boris entered a stone workshop, and in 1822 he was already at the Academy of Arts.
He immediately got to work after his sketches were approved. He entrusted the construction of the pedestals to the architect V.P. Stasov, who successfully completed them. In 1834, Boris made a realistic-sized model of Kutuzov from clay. A year later, a bronze statue of Mikhail Illarionovich was cast. Work on the statue of Barclay de Tolly was completed by 1836. At the end of December 1837, with a military parade and fireworks, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the victory over Napoleon, the opening of the monuments took place. Unfortunately, nine days after this event, Orlovsky died.
Under his leadership, Russian soldiers liberated Europe from Napoleon and his henchmen. Karl Marx considered him a persistent person who was full of determination. E. Schmidt von der Launitz, a sculptor with whom they signed a 5-year contract to sculpt full-length monuments to Kutuzov and Mikhail Bogdanovich, turned out to be absolutely mediocre.
He, of course, presented variants of models for future sculptures in 1827, but they were extremely unsuccessful. He was removed from the order. After Launitz's failure, work on the monuments was transferred to the Academy of Arts.
A competition was announced, but all the sculptors, under various pretexts, refused this project. All of them were afraid of not being able to cope with the main conditions - to make commanders with edged weapons, with staffs in their hands, and also in modern uniforms. Only in mid-1828 were they able to find those who would take on the project with full responsibility.
These were Galberg and Orlovsky - graduates of the Academy of Arts. In the end, only Boris Ivanovich Orlovsky remained, since Galdberg refused to make the commanders realistic. At the age of 16, Boris entered a stone workshop, and in 1822 he was already at the Academy of Arts.
He immediately got to work after his sketches were approved. He entrusted the construction of the pedestals to the architect V.P. Stasov, who successfully completed them. In 1834, Boris made a realistic-sized model of Kutuzov from clay. A year later, a bronze statue of Mikhail Illarionovich was cast. Work on the statue of Barclay de Tolly was completed by 1836. At the end of December 1837, with a military parade and fireworks, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the victory over Napoleon, the opening of the monuments took place. Unfortunately, nine days after this event, Orlovsky died.
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