Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg
| Location | Saint Petersburg, Russia, Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt 25/27 |
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| Designer | Gerush Babayev |
| Type | Monument |
| Height | 5 m |
| Completion date | 2002 |
| Dedicated to | Nizami Ganjavi |
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The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg is located in a square situated between houses 25 and 27 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.[1]
Contents
1 History
2 Architecture
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
The sculpture had been founded in Baku and then presented to Saint Petersburg as a gift from Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city’s origination.[2]
The sculpture was created by Gerush Babayev, an Azerbaijani sculptor, alumni of the Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy. Felix Romanovskiy, Honoured artist of the Russian Federation is the author of a pedestal's project. The pedestal was made in “Kombinat-skulptura” enterprise of Petersburg.
Vladimir Putin and Heydar Aliyev, opening ceremony of the monument
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia and Heydar Aliyev, the then president of Azerbaijan also participated in the opening ceremony of the monument.
In his speech made at the opening ceremony Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “A very happy and solemn event is taking place now – we are unveiling a monument to the prominent son of East, to the prominent son of Azerbaijan – poet and thinker Nizami.[3][4] The head of the Iranian Philology Department and the dean of the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University I. M. Steblin-Kamensky, speaking of this monument characterises the description of Nizami as an Azerbaijani poet as a fruit of nationalist tendencies and as an “outright falsification”.[5]
Architecture
The bronze 5 meter sculpture of the poet was made in an oriental style. Nizami Ganjavi is portrayed sitting on a bench under an arch, in the Eastern attire, with a book in hand. Words “Nizami Ganjavi” (Azerbaijani: Nizami Gəncəvi) is written on the pedestal in Azerbaijani.
See also
- Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of Azerbaijan
References
^ "ПАМЯТНИК АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКОМУ ПОЭТУ НИЗАМИ ГЯНДЖЕВИ В САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГЕ". vesti.az..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ "Памятник Низами Гянджеви".
^ Сайт президента России. Выступление на открытии памятника Низами, Санкт-Петербург, 9 июня 2002 года. Archived 2013-04-17 at Archive.today
^ Невское время. 11 июня 2002. В Баку — Пушкин, у нас — Низами.
^ Стеблин-Каменский Иван Михайлович (заведующий Кафедрой иранской филологии, декан Восточного факультета Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета). Восточный факультет давно готов сотрудничать с Западом. «Мы готовили таких специалистов <в „новообразованных государствах“>, но, как показывает наше с ними общение, там очень много националистических тенденций, научных фальсификаций. (…). В их трудах присутствует националистическое начало, нет объективного взгляда, научного понимания проблем, хода исторического развития. Подчас — откровенная фальсификация. Например, Низами, памятник которому воздвигнут на Каменноостровском проспекте, объявляется великим азербайджанским поэтом. Хотя он по-азербайджански даже не говорил. А обосновывают это тем, что он жил на территории нынешнего Азербайджана — но ведь Низами писал свои стихи и поэмы на персидском языке!»(копия)
External links
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Coordinates: 59°57′50″N 30°18′52″E / 59.96389°N 30.31444°E / 59.96389; 30.31444
