Competition for Best Solzhenitsyn Monument Announced by [Russian] Ministry of Culture

Pravoslavie ^ | 10/2/17

[marshmallow]

An open artistic competition for the best architectural-sculptural monument to Solzhenitsyn, to be placed in Moscow, was announced by the Russian Ministry of Culture today. The competition is being held by the Union of Moscow Architects with the support of the Ministry of Culture, by the initiative of the House of the Russian Diaspora in the name of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

The competition is timed to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the noted author’s birth, which will be marked in 2018, and is being held pursuant to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on June 27, 2014 “On the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birthday of A. I. Solzhenitsyn.”

The monument is planned to be installed on Solzhenitsyn Street in Moscow.

According to competition organizers, sculptors, architects, designers, artists, and industrial designers have been invited to take part in the competition, as independent artists, creative collectives, and consortiums.

[Djl3668]

Never

[struggle]

Have you read Gulag? It’s a very compelling look at everything that happened in the Gulag system, railcars full of nuns filled with rapists on purpose, children starved to death and denied their mothers, it’s brutal.

[dfwgator]

One of my heroes.

[dfwgator]

IIRC Solzhenitsyn is required reading in Russia.

[Djl3668]

Everything that is wrong with society is right here; please look at the first 10 to 20 quotes and you will see “I”, “I read”.

Ok, what did you learn from the greatest read ever? Just “I Read”? Telling isn’t it. When millennial’s just Read to read and decide that reading is all all that is needed... that is what the Bolshevik Prof wants!!!!

[notdownwidems]

If you want a real read, try Applebaum’s Gulag. It’s a horrific look at the gulag that not even Ivan Denisovich can approach.

I agree! Anne Applebaum's 'Gulag' is definitely the best, most comprehensive (and shocking) of all the 'Soviet prison camp' books I have read. After I read it the first time, I immediately started at the beginning and re-read it, something I have NEVER done with any other book. I recommend it to anyone interested in this subject. Other great ones I have read: 'Seven Thousand Days in Siberia', 'Kolyma Tales', 'White Nights' (Menachem Begin), 'When Tears Turn to Ice' and 'The Long Way Home'...also if you get a chance watch the TV movie 'Coming Out of the Ice' with John Savage...excellent also

[ex91B10]

I hope you’re right.