Monument to Prince Svyatoslav Igorevich - a monumental sculpture of the Grand Duke of Kiev Svyatoslav Igorevich on horseback by the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov [1] in the village of Kholki, Chernyansky district, Belgorod region .
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| Monument to Svyatoslav Igorevich | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| Location | Withers Chernyansky district Belgorod region |
| Sculptor | Vyacheslav Klykov |
| Building | 2005 |
| Height | 13 m |
| Material | bronze, granite |
It was established in November 2005 on the occasion of the 1040th anniversary of the victorious end of the campaign of the prince against the Khazar Khaganate , as a result of which Prince Svyatoslav liberated Russia from the Khazar yoke and strengthened the union of Slavic tribes.
Description
Prince of Kiev Svyatoslav is depicted sitting on a war horse, over a defeated Khazarin, trying to defend himself with a shield. In the prince’s right hand is a carried sword. He is dressed in military armor, with a shaved head, decorated with a tuft of hair, a sign of nobility of the clan.
The view of the prince illustrates his determination and life, almost all spent in military campaigns.
The total height of the monument is 13 m (6.5 m pedestal and 6.5 m sculpture).
The bas-relief on the pedestal depicts Russian soldiers fighting with enemies. The inscription on the memorial plate: "The grateful prince of Kiev Svyatoslav the Brave, grateful descendants." Below is the table "Author - Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Klykov (1939-2006) - The monument was erected in November 2005."
The creation of the monument was associated with public resonance. Initially, according to the project, the monument to Prince Svyatoslav, the work of the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov, was supposed to be installed in Belgorod . The sculptural composition dedicated to the 1040th anniversary of the defeat of the Khazar Kaganate was made on the initiative of the International Fund for Slavic Writing and Culture, headed by Klykov. Representatives of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) and the Eurasian Jewish Congress (EAJC) expressed their protest over the image on the shield of the defeated Khazar warrior star David , seeing anti-Semitic motives in this. As a result, the Government of the Belgorod Region initially postponed the opening of the monument, and then it was installed in the village of Kholki, Chernyansky District, Belgorod Region, near the Kholkovsky Monastery (while the element of the sculptural composition that caused the scandal was modified, the star of David on the shield of the defeated Khazarin was covered with a metal plaque on the screws) [ 2] [3] [4] . However, the neo-pagan and neo-Nazi symbol “ Kolovrat ” (eight-pointed swastika) remained on the prince’s shield. [five]
On October 15, 2005, a monument was opened to Prince Svyatoslav of the sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov in Zaporozhye opposite the island of Khortitsa , where Svyatoslav, together with his army, wintered in the siege of the Pechenegs in 972. The prince is depicted on foot, Svyatoslav holds a sword in his raised hand, as if passing the sword to descendants, this is the meaning of the composition "Take my sword ...". Svyatoslav died not on Khortitsa, but on the rapids of the Dnieper, in a battle with hordes of Pechenegs - on the largest threshold of the Dnieper (Nenasytyets threshold near the village of Nikolskoye-on-Dnieper, Solonyansky district, Dnipropetrovsk region ) a memorial plaque was erected in Tsarist times Svyatoslav.
Notes
- ↑ The last monument in the life of the sculptor.
- ↑ FEOR considers the installation in Belgorod of the monument to Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev a provocation.
- ↑ The unreasonable Khazars were mistaken for Jews. In Belgorod, a scandal erupted over the Russian prince Svyatoslav. // Kommersant. - 11/23/2005.
- ↑ Shnirelman V. A. Khazar myth: The ideology of political radicalism in Russia and its origins. - M. - Jerusalem. - S. 221, 225.
- ↑ https://rutraveller.ru/place/130859