Английская Википедия:Alexander Column (Rostov-on-Don)
The Alexander Column (Шаблон:Lang-ru) is a monument erected 1894 in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now a part of Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia) in Alexandrovsky Park (now Vitya Cherevichkin Park).[1]
The column was inaugurated on 18 September 1894 to celebrate the 25 years reign of emperor Alexander II of Russia. On the occasion the park in which the column stands was also renamed after the sovereign.
The column consists of a granite monolith upon which sits a double-headed eagle perched on a globe. On the pedestal two commemorative plaques read: ″In memory of 25 glorious year of reign of Emperor Alexander II[2]″ and ″the Armenian community of Nakhichevan-on-Don 25·IX·1894[3]″
After the Russian Revolution the column was the only tsarist monument not to be torn down by the new authorities. They only removed the crowning double-headed eagle and the commemorative plaques on the pedestal. In 1994 the column was returned to its original state.
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Alexander column in 1907.
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Imperial eagle.
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Pedestal decoration.
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General view.
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ In Шаблон:Lang-ru.
- ↑ In Шаблон:Lang-ru.
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