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Tverskoy Bul'var 25
Тверской Бульвар 25 ☐
(Maxim Gorki Literature Inst. - Литературный инст. им А.М. Горького)

Александр Иванович Герцен

Aleksander Ivanovich Gertsen (Alexander Herzen)

Moscow 1812 - Paris 1870
Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism"
(Wikipedia)

M.I. Mil'berger
1959

Moscow - Москва / Александр Иванович Герцен

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

ГЕРЦЕН

Annotation

Aarchitect K. M. Sapegin - К.М. Сапегин.

Tverskoy Bul'var 25 - Тверской Бульвар 25

The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute - Литературный институт имени А. М. Горького
Higher education institute in Moscow, founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, and received the current name at Gorky's death in 1936. The building is known as the Herzen House - Дом Герцена. In the garden is a statue of Herzen, and on the building are commemorative plaques for Platonov, Mandelstamm and Andreyev.

Sculptor

M.I. Mil'berger - М.И. Мильбергер, Russian sculptor.

Sources & Information

Академик, Словари и энциклопедии на Академике.
MosGid, Скульптуры, монументы, памятники, мемориалы Центрального административного округа.
Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, note 195.

Locatie (N 55°45'46" - E 37°36'7") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ru084; Photograph: 10 July 2011
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