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Vladimir Lenin statue in the "fallen heroes" section in Muzeon Park of Arts. The Muzeon Park of Arts (formerly the Park of the Fallen Heroes or Fallen Monument Park) is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the modern-art division of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Central House of Artists.
[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.
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.
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 .
The sculpture comprises a 100-foot (30 m) bronze-clad tower split with a jagged opening in the middle, in which hangs a 40-foot (12 m)-tall nickel-surfaced teardrop. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 1 ] [ 6 ] The eleven sides of the monument's base bear granite name plates, on which are etched the names of those who died in the September 11 attacks and the 1993 ...
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Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in Washington, D.C. (1 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Sculpture gardens, trails and parks in the United States" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.