Monument to the Dog - a monument with a fountain, erected in honor of scientific experiments and experimental animals in the garden of the Institute of Experimental Medicine on Aptekarsky Island in St. Petersburg ( 12 Akademika Pavlova Street ).
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| Monument to Pavlov’s dog | |
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| Status |  An object of cultural heritage of the peoples of the Russian Federation of federal significance. Reg. No. 781710761430106 ( EGROKN ). (Wikigid database) |
History
The monument was created on the initiative of Academician I.P. Pavlov . According to him, the monument noted the importance of the dog as the main object in conducting experiments on the physiology of nervous activity.
The author of the monument: sculptor and architect I.F. Bezpalov . The 1934 project. The sculpture was cast at the Combine of visual agitation and propaganda ( KNAP factory, according to the inscription on the bas-relief) in Leningrad.
The erection of the monument was timed to coincide with the XV International Congress of Physiologists , held in Leningrad and Moscow from August 9 to 17, 1935. Opened on August 7, 1935, among “a number of new scientific laboratories and busts of great scientists from different countries.”
“To photograph this monument and send them. This is the apotheosis of the dog! Gratitude of humanity. Since I erected a monument to the dogs, I believe that my scores are over with them, ”IP Pavlov, members of the government commission for the preparation of the congress, recalling a meeting with opponents of the vivisection in London.
Description
Water poured into the bowl of the fountain from the jaws of eight mascarons in the form of dog heads. Currently, as a fountain does not work.
The inscriptions on the bas-reliefs of the pedestal:
- From the front: “Let a dog, a helper and a friend of a person, be sacrificed to science from prehistoric times, but our dignity obliges us to make this happen without fail and always without unnecessary torment. I. Pavlov. "
- On the right side: “Having broken the plaster and made porous litter out of it, the dog prompted the experimenter with a technique, thanks to which the pancreatic juice flowing from an artificial hole does not corrode the belly. I.P.
- On the left side: “By licking a wound festering in the neck from a congener after a deep operation, the dog saves him from death and saves him for further scientific research. I.P.
- From the back side: “The dog, thanks to its long-standing disposition towards humans, its ingenuity, patience and obedience, has served, even with noticeable joy, for many years, and sometimes all its life, as an experimenter. I.P.
Nearby in the garden is a fountain-drinking bowl for dogs (the author is also I.F. Bezpalov ). The third fountain on the territory of the institute (in front of the building of the chemical laboratory) is not related to dogs: this is a bowl, on the parapet of the pool of which four metal sculptures of snakes are placed - the symbol of medicine. The fountain was designed by architects N. E. Lansere and A. A. Rassadin in 1935 and now also does not work.
At the same time as a monument to a dog, monuments to the busts of scientists by the work of I.F.
- Charles Darwin
- D.I. Mendeleev
- Louis Pasteur
- I.M.Sechenov
In 1989, the ensemble of the alley, on which the monuments to scientists are located, was supplemented by a recreated bust of Rene Descartes and a newly created bust of I.P. Pavlov.
Sources
- Leningrad truth. 1935. July 30.
- Red newspaper . 1935.August 8.
- Golikov Yu. P. Unusual monument / Yu. P. Golikov, T.I. Grekova // History of St. Petersburg. Journal. - 2003. - No. 6 (16). - S. 46-48.
- V. Sharpilo. Monuments to I.P. Pavlov and his dogs // Dog Island: Journal. - St. Petersburg: Charity Fund "Fidelity", 2013. - No. 3 (23) . - S. 20-21 .