In one of the albums
we have already touched upon most of the buildings on the Stachek Square
(near undeground station “Narvskaya”).
However the Narvskye Gate and the monument it self were still out of the
frame – they were restorated and covered up with scaffold. Now the work is
already finished.
The Narvskye Triumphal Gate.
In 1814 in
oder for meeting the Guards regiments from France after the victory upon
Napoleon the wooden gate were created on this place (project by
D.Quarengi).
In summer 1815 the returning troops walked through it.
Then this place was called Narvskaya Zastsva.
In 1827-1834 the modern gate instead of the old wooden were built
(some near to the South) by the project of V.P.Stasov.
The entrance to the Gate from the
underground passage.
The undeground passage and the granite podium
around the date were erected in 1979-1980.
In front of the date approximately on the way of the underground
passage earlier flowed an arm of the Tarakanovka river (it was filled up
in 1929) through which led a stone double-span bridge got up in “Victory
style”.
It’s banisters were copied in the “Second Sadovy (?) bridge”.
A part of the square near the gates is paved with a red cube – in a
memory of the Bloody Sunday of January 9, 1905 (when the government
troops shot here the workers) and also about that from this place in
1917 the Red Guard people (from Putilovsky and other local plants) went
to defence Petrograd and in 1941 the regiments of the First Kirovskaya
division of the citizen army formed here.
The writings from this side:
To the
left and to the right above – the main battles the regiments took part
in:
“Kulm ,Leipzig”, “F.Shampenois,Paris”
To the left and tj the right below – names of the regiments:
“Emperor Guards regiments
cavalry:
Cavalry-horse kirasirsky
Horse artillery”
“Emperor Guards regiments
cavalry:
Dragunsky
Gousarsky
Ulansky
Kozachy”
In the middle:
“To the victorious
Russian Emperor Guards grateful motherland in 17-th August day 1834.
VICTRICIBUS ROSSICIS LEGION. IMP. CORP. COSTOD. GRATA
PATRIA.D.XVII.M.AUG.AN.MDCCCXXXIV."
“By the order of Alexander the First”
On the height of 15 meters-the triumphal
chariot of the Victory from the forged copper.
In the chariot – Nika-the goddess of the
victory with a palm branch and a laurel wreath-the symbols of peace and
glory.
The Geniuses of Glory.
Sculptures – M.G.Krylov, N.A.Tokarev.
The warrior figures in ancient russian
armor with the laurel wreathes (sculptures-S.Pimenov,
V.Demut-Malinovsky).
The Gates were made from bricks and
panneled with copper sheets (near 90 tonnes of copper).
Inside the Gates just above the
arch-small military historical museum. The idea of it’s foundation
belongs to V.P.Stasov who had projected the Gates itself . But the idea
was realized only in 1989.
The Gates were on restoration in 1927,
1951 (were hardly harmed because of the fires), in 1978 and now –
approximately 2000-2003.
To the left and to the right, above the
arch, if I’m not mistaken – the Geniuses of Peace.
Sculptures –
M.G.Krylov and N.A.Tokarev.
Let’s look at the Gates from the other
side.
The writings in the centre are the same, but on the edges-a new one.
To the left and to the right above: the main battles the regiments took
part in:
“Borodino, Tarutino.
“M:Yaroslavec.Krasnoye”
To the left and to the right below – the names of the regiments.
“Emperor Guards regiments:
Infantry:
Preobragensky, Semenovsky, Izmailovsky, Egersky, Artillery brigade”
“Emperor Guards regiments:
Infantry:
Litovsky, Grenadersky, Pavlovsky, Finlandsky, Morskoy Crew”
In front of the Gates-the monument to
marshall and hero of the Soviet Union – Leonid Alexandrovich Govorov.
In April 1942 L.A.Govorov was set to command the group of the Leningrad
front troops , he has passed the Great Patriotic War and was rewarded
for many times. After the War he headed the PVO troops of the country.
He was buried in the Kremlin wall on the Red Square.
“To Marshall Govorov – Grateful
citizens”
The monument established in 1999 by the model of sculptor
V.Bogolubov from 1946 (he made it in the time of the general commander).
Some inclined to believe the monument wasn’t established earlier
because of the “Leningrad file” by which in the time of Stalin Govorov
for some reason passed.
But such version does not joint with the fact that even in 1962 on of
the streets not so far was called in the name of Govorov. So they had no
time or no money to finish the monument.
The flowers on the pedestal.
It’s interesting that the Moskowsie Gates
(which we will see sometime) were projected by the same architect –
V.P.Stasov.
