Monument-chapel to the grenadiers who fell near Plevnoy description and photo - Russia - Moscow: Moscow (Topic)

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The monument-chapel to the grenadiers who fell near Plevna was erected in the Ilyinsky square of Moscow - on the square near the Ilyinsky Gate. The chapel-monument to the grenadiers was built with donations from the grenadiers who survived the battle of Plevna. They collected about 50 thousand rubles. The authors of the monument are sculptor and architect V. I. Sherwood and engineer-colonel A. I. Lyashkin.

An octagonal chapel made of cast iron is installed on a low pedestal and crowned with an Orthodox cross. Cast iron parts are assembled so precisely that no seams are visible. The edges of the monument are decorated with four high reliefs with plots that convey the liberating spirit of battle. The inscriptions on the edges perpetuate the memory of the war with Turkey, of the dead grenadiers and the liberation of the Bulgarian people from the Turkish yoke. In front of the monument there are cast-iron curbstones, on which there were circles for donations in favor of the crippled grenadiers and their families.

Inside the chapel there are images of Sts. Alexander Nevsky, Nicholas the Wonderworker, John the Warrior, Cyril and Methodius. The names of the dead grenadiers - eighteen officers and more than five hundred soldiers - are immortalized on bronze plates. During the Soviet period of history, these slabs were lost, and the chapel itself fell into disrepair.

In 1992, the chapel was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. She was attributed to the Nikolo-Kuznetsk church. In March 1998, the chapel was consecrated and opened. The event was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria and the signing of the peace treaty of San Stefano. Patriarch Alexy II was present at the consecration. On the national holiday of the Liberation Day of Bulgaria, which is celebrated on March 3, the clergy of the Russian and Bulgarian churches commemorated the dead soldiers at the revived chapel. In 1999, Patriarch Alexy II established the Patriarchal Compound at the Monument Chapel. Today, funeral and funeral services are regularly held in the chapel.

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