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Monument to Alexander III in Irkutsk.
BAIKAL TOURS
MUSEUMS OF IRKUTSK
The Monument to Alexander III
The history of this monument is interesting and dramatic The figure of the emperor was first placed here in honor of the
completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway It was unveiled in 1908 The monument was designed by Robert Bach, also the architect
of the Pushkin monument in Tsarskoye Selo and the monument to Glinka in Moscow The first statue did not last long In 1920 it was
dismantled by the Soviet government Only in 1964 was the monument — rather, its foundation — reconstructed by V Shmatkov as a
giant pyramidal spire For just under four decades, Irkutsk residents agreed to meet «at the spire » Finally, in the
new century and millennium, Alexander III returned to the Irkutsk embankment thanks to funding from the Eastern Siberia Railroad
The architects studied archived documents pertain ing to the original statue and the new monument was made by a group of St Petersburg
sculptures under the direction of Albert Charkm By the way the bronze figure of the emperor is five meters tall and weights
6 metric tons The monument was rededicated on October 4 2003.
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