Monument to Lev Kassil Fantazer description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Engels (Topic)

Monument to Lev Kassil "Fantazer" description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Engels. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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On the 101st anniversary of the birth of the world famous children's writer and journalist Lev Kassil, on July 11, 2006, a monument "The Fantazer" was erected on Freedom Square. The author of the idea and the sculptor of the monument is the honorary citizen of the city of Engels K. Matveyev. Together with a group of sculptors A. Sadovsky in the park, on the territory of the former Pokrovskaya gymnasium (now the Technological Institute), they embodied the idea in stone - a happy and carefree writer in his youth, a dreamer and a dreamer, with a burdock on his head.

Lev Abramovich Kassil - a native of the city of Engels (formerly Pokrovskaya Sloboda), Saratov Region; in his youth - a favorite of the Pokrovskoy children, organizer of circles and editor of a children's magazine, husband of S.V. Sobinova (Saratov Conservatory was named after her father), editor of the Murzilka magazine, in adulthood - the chairman of the commission for children's literature of the USSR and the head of seminars at the Literary Institute. A.M. Gorky.

Also in Engels is the House-Museum, where the famous children's writer spent his childhood and adolescence, and a street named after Lev Kassil. The favorite holiday of the city children is the carnival and theatrical performances held on the writer's birthday, in which everyone takes part. For one day, the city of Engels turns into the country of Schwambrania, imbued with the spirit of a kind children's fairy tale.

The Fantazer Monument is the pride and attraction of the city of Engels, evoking good memories that take you back to childhood.

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