Several decades ago, the terrible battles of the Great Patriotic War died down, which claimed the lives of millions of Soviet citizens. Grief came to every family, a heavy burden on the tormented hearts of people who had lost their loved ones. The exploits and heroism of fellow countrymen are worth living through the ages: they are passed down from generation to generation, carefully stored in archives, immortalized in memorials and monuments.
Monument of a grieving mother in Perm
One of the monuments reminiscent of the terrible wartime is the "Grieving Mother" - a monument erected on April 28, 1928 in Perm. This ten-meter sculpture is located on a high hill at the confluence of the rivers Styx and Egoshikha. The place for the monument was not chosen by chance: it was here, on the Yegoshinsky churchyard, that the soldiers who died in hospitals from wounds, the defenders of the Fatherland, found their last refuge. The erection of the monument was dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Victory; its author is Yu. F. Yakubenko, the architects are M. I. Futlik and A. P. Zagorodnikov. Yekubenko assembled his sculpture in parts in a specially designated room for this purpose at the Red October factory. The work lasted 4.5 months. First, the monument was made of concrete, and then the sculptor made a knockout from bronze on it.
"Grieving Mother" - a monument in Perm - depicts a woman bowing her head in deep grief. This is a mother, wife, sister, daughter, who blessed the beloved man who did not return from the battlefield for the feat of arms. Sorrow for the loss of her son weighs heavily on her fragile shoulders, silvers her hair prematurely, lays sorrowful wrinkles on her face and compresses her heart painfully.
Volgograd grieving mother: a monument
Volgograd. History seems to be frozen in the sculpture of a grieving mother, located on the top of Mamaev Kurgan and part of a huge memorial complex built in the 60s. A mother bent over the lifeless body of her dead son… A terrible picture that affected almost every family. The heroes of this monument are a collective image of all mothers who lost people dear to their hearts during the war.
Grieving mother is a monument that was originally conceived from a slightly different perspective. Its author, the talented Soviet monumental sculptor Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich, wanted to depict a dead soldier with a face, and then changed his mind and created an abstract image that embodies father, brother, husband, son. Grieving mother - a monument located on the squareSorrow and surrounded by the Lake of Tears, through which a path leads to the monument.
Chelyabinsk. Composition "Grieving Mothers"
Grieving for their sons and husbands left on the territory of a foreign land, and in Chelyabinsk. Here, at the Forest Cemetery, where the dead soldiers are buried, the composition "Grieving Mothers" is installed, consisting of two female figures - a bride and a mother. Both women are turned to face each other and carefully hold a military helmet in their hands. Sculptors E. E. Golovnitskaya and L. N. Golovnitsky and architects I. V. Talalay and Yu. P. Danilov worked on the creation of the 6-meter sculpture.
Grieving mother: A memorial to those killed in Afghanistan
Sons who fulfilled their international duty and died in Afghanistan… In memory of them, a monument to a grieving mother was erected in Kursk. Its author, Nikolai Krivolapov, depicted a woman-mother, sprawled over the bodies of her children on cold granite slabs. The names of the dead children, who will never be returned, are forever imprinted on a silent stone.
Many people, when they are near the monument, feel a deep sense of guilt before their deeply grieving mother and the children who died in a foreign land. This monument, which does not pretend to be grandiose, emphasizes the whole tragedy of the senselessness of military operations. The memorial makes you think; everyone who comes here takes with him a touching feeling of gratitude to the author who immortalized the feat of young Soviet guys.
Composition "Pain" in Vitebsk
For the internationalist warriorsdedicated to the sculptural composition "Pain", representing a kneeling mother and son, as if passed through it. The son is bandaged, and the swaddling mother seems to mourn her child.
The memorial, cast from aluminum, rests on black granite stones. A small chapel has been erected nearby, where you can light a candle for the dead in Afghanistan. The grieving mother is a monument to which the alley leads; on both sides of it, the names of Vitebsk residents who died in Afghanistan are carved on granite slabs.
