The Monument To Taras Shevchenko Editorial Image

One of symbols of Kharkiv and its main attractions is the monument to the outstanding Ukrainian poet and writer, artist Taras Shevchenko. It is considered to be the best monument to Shevchenko in the world and this is one of the seven wonders of Kharkiv. The monument is located in the city center, in the garden that has the same name – Shevchenko Garden. Along with the landscape and Kharkiv architecture they form a unified ensemble. The total height of the monument is more than 16 meters, and the statue of Kobzar made of gray originally black labradorite is 4.5 meters. Since the opening celebration of the monument took place on March 24, 1935, the interpretation of the personality of Taras Shevchenko was Soviet ie, as a revolutionary poet, writer, an ideological fighter for the bright future of the people. The style of sculpture is the combination of socialist realism and Stalinist Baroque. The authors of the monument are sculptor Matthew Manizer and architect Joseph Langbard. Unified multidisciplinary composition of the monument should be viewed in several stages. The monument is the original architectural spiral with triangular column with Shevchenko on a pedestal, around which there were placed in a circle 16 frozen in the movement statues, representing the working people in the fight for their rights and freedoms.