Novgorod offered select historical figures, which could take place at the monument “Millenium of Russia”, if it was created today. As it was reported BakuToday in the Regional Committee of culture, an Internet survey to create a “virtual layer” to the monument of organized library network “Biblionika”.
“In the list of candidates includes, for example, the classic patriotic literature of Leo Tolstoy, an outstanding musician and composer Dmitri Shostakovich, composer, our countryman Sergei Rachmaninoff, writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, patriarch Alexei II, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Georgy Zhukov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and dozens of names of prominent people of the past and of the present century “,-told the Committee.
To date, more than the total votes obtained the Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Respondents offer and its options. Voting is not only online, but also in all eight libraries network “Biblionika”. It is also planned that a poll will be held on the streets of Novgorod the great.
Action is timed to the 150-th anniversary of the opening of the monument “Millennium of Russia”, which will be celebrated in September 2012.
Remember, the “Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod was opened September 8, 1862, in honor of the millennial anniversary of the legendary vocation Varangians to Russia. The idea of opening the monument to Alexander II and was supported by historians. The monument created by sculptor Mikhail Mikešinym, decided to establish in Novgorod, thereby recognizing its key role in the creation of the Russian State. The ceremony was attended by Emperor Alexander II as heir and members of the imperial household. The monument is a giant ball-power kolokoloobraznom on the pedestal. The monument contains 129 human figures historical figures, Ivan the terrible, whose image is not included in the composition of the massacre of Novgorod in 1570.
