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Under the ringing of bells
A significant event occurred on Saturday July 29 in the city of Suzdal.
In the city of Suzdal, a monument was erected by Andrei Tarkovsky and his film "Andrey Rublev" https://t.co/4ssvqfjckt pic.twitter.com/zhzktx1c3c3
- TASS (@TASS_AGENCY) July 29, 2017
The statue of the director leads a complex sculptural group, which also includes the figures of Andrei Rublev, the bell master of Boriska and the bell itself, probably cast in Borisky in the last scene of the film.
In Suzdal, a monument to Tarkovsky was opened. With Andrei Rublev and Borisky. Photo pic.twitter.com/joqs73HFTC
- Sergey Mikhailovich (@gcanalyst) July 31, 2017
The celebrations were held on a grand scale, with the participation of representatives of the authorities and the church.
Monument to Tarkovsky in Suzdal was opened under the ringing of bells
- Warrior of Night (@drakopp) July 31, 2017
Why in Suzdal?
Suzdal is often called Russian Hollywood. The preserved architectural heritage and colorful texture of the Old Russian city allow you to make historical films here almost without scenery.
Perhaps this circumstance prompted Andrei Tarkovsky to shoot Andrei Rublev in Suzdal - a film that was destined to take one of the main places in the treasury of world cinema.
The opening of the monument is dedicated to the celebration of the 85th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky, the 50th anniversary of the film "Andrei Rublev" and the 40th anniversary of the main tourist complex "Suzdal".
The main inspirer of the action was the actor, director and president of the Orthodox cinema forum "Golden Vityaz" Nikolai Burlyaev. Writes "Russian newspaper":
- This is a big event in the world of culture! It is of international importance for the entire cinematic community. “Andrei Rublev” was recognized as one of the best films of all time and peoples, and its author is an outstanding director who changed the spiritual space of the planet, ”said Nikolai Burlyaev.
The author of the monument, sculptor Maria Tikhonova, who came to the ceremony with her little daughter, revealed the secrets of how work was going on the monument.
- I can say that the Trinity was present for three years - the “Trinity” Rublevskaya and the Trinity - those who are present now. For me, this monument was like for Boriska a bell, ”said the sculptor.
Here it is necessary to mention a piquant detail - Boriska in Andrei Rublev was played by Nikolai Burlyaev. That is, on the monument, in a sense, it is depicted at a young age.
In Suzdal, a monument was opened to Andrei Tarkovsky.
This is the first monument to the director in the world. Tarkovsky and a scene with a bell from Andrei Rublev are captured. The monument was opened by Nikolai Burlyaev (because Burlyaev also got into the frame of the monument to Tarkovsky). Priests in an elegant red-yellow-violet sang funny songs.
They fed tea and coffee.
Many media reported that the monument to Tarkovsky in Suzdal was the "first in the world."
In Suzdal, a monument was opened to Andrei Tarkovsky. The world's first monument to the great director. pic.twitter.com/qiwc9imfyw
- Catonauts (@meownauts) July 29, 2017
But this is still not entirely true.
first? But what about the monument to VGIK pic.twitter.com/krpxvisgaz
- Garetaur said (@garretttorra) July 29, 2017
It was impossible to say that the monument was met only by approval remarks. There are few doubts that Tarkovsky deliberate the perpetuation of memory - but does it look like that?
What a terrible monument! Tarkovsky would die !!!
He looked at the photographs of the monument to Andrei Tarkovsky in Suzdal. In principle, yes, but what other monument could be erected? Not with the chicken, which is nobody to slaughter, well, not with the same painful face of Mom-Terekhova from the "mirror".
A monument to Tarkovsky was erected in Suzdal. More precisely, to say - Burlyaev.
A disgusting statue designed to perpetuate Kolya with a cunning way ...
Tarkovsky is Tarkovsky, but again this Klykov-“Burlyaev” style with a claim to “spirituality” ... The composition itself resembles the number of Dima Bilan, with whom he took the first place at Eurovision. And I do not like the inscription on the pedestal: "The best film of all times and peoples."
Do artists need monuments at all?
It is amazing how to create such a mediocre monument to the great director ... Andrei Tarkovsky, in addition to the fact that he put complex philosophical questions in each of his film ... He was a real artist of the "frame" ... His movie is the intellectual story of a great director ... The sculptor of Maria Tikhonova should be ashamed that "Memory" about Tarkovsky "immortalized" in such a wretched sculpture ...
In the regiment of stupid and vulgar statues, which now in Russia feverishly score any empty space, the addition-Burlyaev nevertheless struck the installation of the monument, as it were, Tarkovsky in Suzdal (in fact, of course). I had not seen sketches before, but I was sure that there would be a shit. So it happened. Tarkovsky, Solonitsyn and Burlyaev in the image of the walking dead zombies. And all this with an arch-column and an indispensable pseudo-Russian scary. “The best film of all times and peoples” - God, why write like that, idiots? A painful feeling of shame when you see it. Such "monuments" in the cemeteries put - criminal authorities and so on.
However, there is good news!
Let's look for positive. He could be 10-meter, and stand in the middle of Moscow ...