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Monument to Elena Pavlovna "On the Island"

Павловск, Italy

Monument to Elena Pavlovna "On the Island"

Monument to Elena Pavlovna “On the Island” (Russian: Памятник Елене Павловне «На острову») is a lost monument in Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was a marble prism standing on a pedestal (made of Olonets marble); on one of its sides, there was a filleted recess holding a marble slab and an in

scription with gilded copper letters "September 12, 1803". Above the prism, there stood a dark-red porphyry vase, on which bronze birds were perched. On the opposite side was a bas-relief by Ivan Martos: the genius of death with a wreath of roses (a symbol of marital happiness) in his right hand and an overturned torch (a symbol of death) in his left. The lowered hand, the bowed head, and the outline of the wings of the genius were repeated in the rounded outline of the upper part of the recess. The inscription on the bas-relief read "Иван Петрович Мартос из Ични делал 1806 год" (Ivan Petrovich Martos from Ichnia made it in 1806). The master considered this monument one of his best works. The monument was erected by the order of the widowed Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1806 on the "island under the flag" – a small island on the Slavyanka River below the Mariental dam, where a flagpole with...

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