Monument To The Liberation From Serfdom In Kolomenskoye Editorial Image

It was installed by the villagers of the village of Shaidorovo on a street or intersection, as it was designed for inspection from different points of view. It was put in gratitude to the Emperor Alexander II for the abolition of serfdom, probably in 1881 after the death of the Emperor. Recall that the Tsar-liberator Alexander II in 1861 signed a decree on the abolition of serfdom, and the Emperor was the author of many major changes to restructure local government and the judicial system, education and the army. The peasants idolized the Tsar and wrote letters of thanks to him.nIn the year of the death of Alexander II as a result of a fatal wound received on the embankment of the Catherine canal in St. Petersburg, the villagers of Shaidrovo used their savings to set up a memorial.nThe village of Shaidrovo, known since the XV century, was located on the Bank of the Chertanovka river the area of modern streets Koshkina, Kantemirovskaya, Medikov, Kavkazsky Boulevard, opposite Belyaevo.nThe memorial was located at one of the intersections of the village so that it was visible from all sides. In the 1970s, when the above-mentioned area was being developed, the monument was moved to the Kolomenskoye Museum-reserve.