Millennium Monument of Brest
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Brest Millennium Monument (2009) - was designed by the Belarusian architect Alexei Andreyuk
and sculptor Alexei Pavluchuk to commemorate the millennium of Brest, Belarus
. It was erected in 2009 at the intersection of Sovietskaya Street and Gogol Street in Brest. The project was financed by the state budget and public donations.
The monument presents a group of bronze statues. The angel of mercy with a cross is standing at the top of a granite column. 3 statues remember the remarkable historic personalities that are associated with Brest:
Vladimir Vasilkovich
, who put up a tower in the castle of the town in the 13th century,
Vitovt the grand duke of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
,
Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł in whose printing shop the first Belarusian book was printed,
3 more statues represent abstract images: warrior, mother, chronicler (who wrote apparently the Russian Primary Chronicle).
The total height is 15.1 m,
the height of the angel is 3.8 m,
the height of the 6 statues is 3m.
the diameter of the base is 8.6 m.
In April 2011 a belt of high reliefs appeared around the monument. It depicts history-making episodes of Brest
.
Alexei Andreyuk
Alexei A. Andreyuk was born in Brest, Belarus, in 1959, studied architecture at the Civil Engineering Institute in Brest, a member of the Belarusian Academy of Architecture, the chairman of the Brest Regional Department of the Belarusian Union of Architects, the manager of architectural workshop...
and sculptor Alexei Pavluchuk to commemorate the millennium of Brest, Belarus
Brest, Belarus
Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
. It was erected in 2009 at the intersection of Sovietskaya Street and Gogol Street in Brest. The project was financed by the state budget and public donations.
The monument presents a group of bronze statues. The angel of mercy with a cross is standing at the top of a granite column. 3 statues remember the remarkable historic personalities that are associated with Brest:
Vladimir Vasilkovich
Vladimir Vasilkovich
Vladimir Vasilkovich was a son of Vasilko Romanovich, prince of Volhynia, now part of Ukraine. He succeeded his father when the latter died in 1269, and was famous for numerous construction and reconstructions of town fortifications in Volhynia....
, who put up a tower in the castle of the town in the 13th century,
Vitovt the grand duke of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th /13th century until 1569 and then as a constituent part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791 when Constitution of May 3, 1791 abolished it in favor of unitary state. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the polytheistic...
,
Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł in whose printing shop the first Belarusian book was printed,
3 more statues represent abstract images: warrior, mother, chronicler (who wrote apparently the Russian Primary Chronicle).
The total height is 15.1 m,
the height of the angel is 3.8 m,
the height of the 6 statues is 3m.
the diameter of the base is 8.6 m.
In April 2011 a belt of high reliefs appeared around the monument. It depicts history-making episodes of Brest
Brest, Belarus
Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
.
External links
- an article in Russian in "Vecherny Brest" about assembling the monument
- a picture of the monument
- an article in Russian in "Brestkaya gazeta" about the unveiling of the monument
- an article in Russian in «Vecherniy Brest» of 06.04.2011 about the scenes of the high reliefs
- detailed information about the monument in Russian in "Vecherniy Brest" #60, July 31, 2009