The monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky in Chernigov was deployed backwards to Moscow, as the author dreamed

In Chernigov, as part of the reconstruction of the monument to the hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the sculpture was deployed 180 degrees. The city council explained that the author saw the figure of Khmelnitsky to face the church and back to Moscow, but the party leadership did not allow this.

The site of the Chernihiv administration notes that now the monument is located facing the central square of the city and Pyatnitsky Church. That is how the sculpture of the work of Ivan Kavaleridze was going to place the architect Andrei Karnabed. “But during the construction of the facility, the party leadership forced the builders to deploy the sculpture in the opposite direction, facing the then regional party. Andrei Karnabed all his life hoped that in independent Ukraine the hetman was still deployed to the church and his back to Moscow,” the message said.

14.5 thousand hryvnias were spent on the reorientation of Khmelnitsky (about 31.5 thousand rubles). In total, the authorities of the Ukrainian city intend to spend about 700 thousand hryvnias (1.5 million rubles) for reconstruction.

Note that Russian art objects have to change orientation from time to time. So, for example, in Rostov-on-Don, young wraps out of hooliganism launched a monument to the great enlightener Mikhail Lomonosov in the city center by 90 degrees, the Don Tro channel reported. In the capital of Kalmykia Elista, a monument to Vladimir Lenin was deployed twice. In 1995, the recently elected President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov demanded to put the leader of the proletariat face to the statue of the Buddha and at the same time to the windows of his office. In 2005, after large -scale rallies of protest, the authorities declared the central square "not a place for political discussions." Then two fountains and a chess platform were installed in front of the White House, and Ilyich was again deployed and put on the perimeter.