FALLEN MONUMENT PARK

Description

Essentials about Fallen Monument Park in brief

Fallen Monument Park is certainly one of the most extraordinary sights of Moscow. As the name suggests, the park is an open-air art gallery, where about 700 statues of various artists from the Soviet Union period as well as from Russia are installed. The sculpture park is best known for its depictions of Soviet personalities, including the heads of state Lenin, Stalin and Brezhnev, as well as the first KGB chief Dzerzhinki. Fallen Monument Park is located next to the exhibition center Central House of the Artist, opposite the main entrance to Gorky Park.

The history of Fallen Monument Park

Historically, the sculpture park dates back to the months after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The statues of the once glorified politicians, party leaders and military officers of the Soviet Union were toppled from their pedestals in rows at the time and deposited on the grounds of the Moscow Sculpture Park. That’s why some people call the sculpture park a little disrespectfully “the cemetery of toppled statues”.

In 1992 the city of Moscow decided to establish Fallen Monument Park. The “toppled statues” did not get their original pedestals back, but at least they were put up again. Today the park is divided into different thematic areas, dedicated, for example, to the Second World War or individual artists.