© 2004 Erected in 1926 it was one of the first largescale statues of Lenin, being completed within three years of his death. despotism, but in starting a social revolution on an international scale, Lenin Category People & Blogs; Song Farewell of Slavianka; Artist Victor Fedorov; Album Red Army Choir: Russian Favourites; Licensed to YouTube by In the street, standing on top of an armoured car, Comrade The style and pose of the statue w… The statue of Lenin at Finland Station, Saint Petersburg is one of the most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin in Russia. [11], On a badge commemorating Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) as a hero city, Plinth boarded up and statue removed in 2009, Coordinates: 59°57′15″N 30°21′20″E / 59.95404°N 30.35542°E / 59.95404; 30.35542, Monument to Lenin at Lenin Square (Saint Petersburg), Mikhailovskaya Military Artillery Academy, "How Vladimir Lenin's train journey from Switzerland to Russia changed history", "In commemoration of the great revolution which changed Russia. There they waited with a bouquet and speeches for Lenin. At the Finland Station the revolutionaries had taken over the Tsars' waiting room. It was designed by Swedish architects and opened in 1870. Copyleft: The statue was taken away for repair and reinstalled in April 2010. Moscow, Lenin’s Address at the Finland Station June 15, 2008 by Marge Anderson On the day Lenin arrived at the Finland station in Petrograd, he declared that the World War must be transformed into a series of civil wars, the bourgeois revolution into a social revolution, so that a crisis of European capitalism might be precipitated. Printed from the Pravda text. [7][5], The statue depicts Lenin in a suit and tie with waistcoat and overcoat, clothing associated with his later position as leader of the Soviet Union, rather than his 1917 attire as a revolutionary leader. [9][10], At 4.30am on 1 April 2009 the statue was attacked by a bomb. Pravda No. Finland Station was built by Finnish State Railways as the eastern terminus of the Riihimäki–Saint Petersburg railway. [7] Joseph Brodsky thought the statue the first ever to depict a person on top of an armoured car and compared it to the tradition of equestrian statues of previous leaders. Lenin greeted the revolutionary Russian proletariat and the revolutionary Published: Part 2", "The Leader's Two Bodies: A Study in the Iconography of the Vozhd", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Statue_of_Lenin_at_Finland_Station&oldid=981283076, Buildings and structures in Saint Petersburg, Monuments and memorials to Vladimir Lenin, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 1 October 2020, at 11:09. page 399.2. Shortly afterward, we pulled into the Finlyandsky Vokzal—the Finland Station. and added that the proletariat of the whole world looked with hope to the Progress Publishers, Volume 41, mansion, where the meeting continued. [8] The monument is described by Oxford Professor Penelope Curtis as the "first important monument" of Lenin and establishing a style that has been much repeated by later statues. Arriving at the city's Finland Station he was met by a crowd of Bolshevik sympathisers and climbed onto the turret of an armoured car. It was designed in an early constructiviststyle by sculptor Sergei A. Evseev and architects Vladimir Shchuko and V.G. Lenin is depicted with his right arm raised to shoulder height, palm forwards and thumb upraised. Gelfreich. [5] The statue was created in an early constructivist style by sculptor Sergei A. Evseev and architects Vladimir Shchuko and V.G. 24, April 5, 1917. 1977, [5] After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the majority of these were torn down; the Finland Station statue is one of the few that remain and is one of the most famous in the country. [10] A hole measuring 80–100 centimetres (31–39 in) was blown in the buttocks of the statue. The station formerly contained a special pavilion for Russian royalty. 24, April 5, 1917. terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. V. I. Lenin Speech in the Finland Station Square to Workers, Soldiers and Sailors April 3 (16), 1917 Published: Pravda No. From this point, Lenin would go on to take the revolution into his own hands — and by early November (October O.S. Collected Works, Source: Russian proletariat’s bold steps. After the February Revolution he was permitted by the German authorities to travel via sealed train across German territory, take a ferry to Helsinki and thence a train to Petrograd, as Saint Petersburg was then known. [11][10] The attackers were never caught. [8] This "taxi-hailing" pose is common to many Lenin statues, though Berkeley Professor Laura Bonnell states that this depiction differs from later versions in that Lenin's arm is used to indicate a directional movement, rather than offering a benediction to the masses. [1] He rode the car to the Bolshevik headquarters at the Kshesinskaya Palace and delivered a speech in favour of Bolshevism and denouncing the moderate Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionary Party. The style and pose of the statue were imitated by later works. It depicts the man making a speech from atop an armoured car, soon after his 1917 arrival at the station from exile abroad. It was designed in an early constructivist style by sculptor Sergei A. Evseev and architects Vladimir Shchuko and Vladimir Helfreich. It depicts the man making a speech from atop an armoured car, soon after his 1917 arrival at the station from exile abroad. Russian army, who had succeeded not only in liberating Russia from tsarist

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