The monument in its narrow sense is a sculptural image that immortalizes significant people or entire events in history.
Monuments of Ukraine are presented in various ways, and each of them is a separate masterpiece. Our country can be justly proud not only of its glorious history, but also, thanks to the real masters of sculpture, to admire the beautiful images of folk heroes – works of art. These monuments are dedicated to the first statesmen who created the glorious history of our state. Due to the skill of execution, the monuments impress the imagination, the plot allows you to imagine a particular historical epoch or personality.
Here, let’s say you are walking on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv. The first to attract your attention is an extremely elegant work – a sculptural group, in the center of which a monument to Princess Olga is surrounded by Cyril, Methodius and the Apostle Andrew the First-Called.
Successfully selected materials for this work (the sculptures themselves are made of white marble, and the pedestal – of pink granite) gives the sculptures elegance, grandeur, purity and brightness. Monuments dedicated to the history of Ukraine allow the descendants of many generations to study and appreciate the history of their country, as well as to proudly tell it to foreign guests.
An interesting story of creating a sculpture. At the beginning of the 1900s, it was to become an alley
of memory, starting from Sofia Square and closing at Mykhailivska Square. The author of the sculptural group Ivan Kavaleridze combined legendary personalities into one composition.
There is a
nother sculptural work that does not allow us to forget about the history of our native country – a monument to Vladimir the Great. Kyiv is the city over which it has risen since the end of the 19th century. According to historians, it was he
re that the prince of Kiev baptized his subjects in 988.
To this day, the unique monument to Prince Vladimir seems to be watching with its all-seeing princely eye all the changes that are taking place in the state once entrusted to him.
In the modern world, the art of modeling represents many talented masters who are able to create masterpieces that immortalize outstanding personalities, individual events of history.