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Radio Liberty. Telescope
Last Friday, May 26, in Petroevi Lane in the center of Moscow, the Alley of rulers opened with busts of historical figures who at different times led Russia. Monuments made by the tireless sculptor Zurab Tsereteli were erected by the Russian Military Historical Society, led by Vladimir Medinsky. The Minister of Education Olga Vasilieva praised the sculptor for the "meticulous recreation of faces."
The historian Sergei Shokarev , assistant professor of the Russian State University, was interested in individual oddities noticed by other users of the network. Why, for example, Alexander I ceremethels depicted dressed in a uniform, while the Bust of Nicholas I - bare shoulders standing nearby? According to the historian, the reason is simple: the bust of Nicholas I is copied from the sculpture of the mid -19th century, the prototype for which, in turn, was a bust of the sculptor Rauch of 1841, depicting the emperor dressed in the ancient Togu. There were many other coincidences.
Where did the busts of Tsereteli come from on the Alley of the rulers of the RVIO? Small artistic investigation https://t.co/s1ckxlxml4 pic.twitter.com/sajqomfa0h
- Chronicler (@podmletopisec) May 30, 2017
In his article "Simplicity is worse than theft" Shokarev claims:
If not all, then many medieval sovereigns Tsereteli, without adventure, borrowed from a similar “state” series of desktop busts of the Felix Chopin Brush-Lithuanian workshop, who worked in St. Petersburg in the second half of the XIX century.
In the same row there is a bust of Peter I, who Chopin first reproduced in 1860 from the famous work of Mari-Anna Collo for the head of the famous copper horseman.
The article from the portal "suburbs without politics" has since been deleted, but the text with photographs has been preserved in the Google cache ; In addition, the author of the article published it in Livejournal .
The news of the possible plagiarism of network commentators was not surprised at all. Someone even believes that everything is for the best:
It is good that Ceretheli did not break out, but tugged around the classics, which few saw. Otherwise, we would see new monsters. Let him copy.
The publication "such cases" tried to find out from the Russian Military Historical Society, how much there was the manufacture of busts, but did not receive an answer to its question .