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The Summer Garden in St. Petersburg (1716–25) was one of the earliest sculpture parks. The Summer Garden ( Russian : Летний сад, Letniy Sad ) occupies an island between the Fontanka River , Moyka River , and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg , and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great .
Sculptures were brought in from shuttered sculpture factories, Soviet-era workshops where anonymous artisans manufactured figurines. "Portrait row" in Muzeon Park of Arts. In January 1992, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov signed a decree establishing the Muzeon Park of Arts. Gradually, some of the statues were hoisted to their feet and arranged ...
The Milkmaid of Tsarskoye Selo (also known as Girl with a pitcher) (Russian: Девушка с кувшином; other names: Milkwoman, Tsarskoye Selo Statue, Peretta) is a fountain in the Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo in St. Petersburg (designed by Augustin Betancourt, sculpted by Pavel Sokolov).
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism (also known as the Tear of Grief and the Tear Drop Memorial) is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. [1]
The Icon Museum and Study Center is a non-profit art museum (formerly the Museum of Russian Icons) located in Clinton, Massachusetts, United States.The collection includes more than 1,000 Russian icons and related artifacts, making it one of the largest private collections of Russian icons outside of Russia and the largest in North America.
The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution.
Several "Sculpture Parks" have been established in post-Soviet states to display Communist-era statues in a museum environment: There is a display of Soviet statues in Grutas Park (promoted to tourists as "Stalin World") near Druskininkai in Lithuania. The open-air Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow, Russia has over 600 Soviet-era statues.
[3] [4] Pushkin's statue is said to be the first monument commemorating a Russian literary figure in the United States. [2] James W. Symington, then the Chairman of the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, first proposed that a statue of Alexander Pushkin be erected in Washington.