Muzeon Park of Arts
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The Muzeon Park of Arts is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the modern-art division of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Central House of Artists. It is located between the Park
Vladimir Lenin statue in the "fallen heroes" section in Muzeon Park of Arts
The Alexander Garden Obelisk that was altered in 1918
"The Bronze Horseman" in St. Petersburg
The statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky that was removed in 1991
Felix Dzerzhinsky
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Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed Iron Felix, was a Bolshevik revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first three Soviet secret police organ
Muzeon Park of Arts
…issued a decree "on the prevention of defacing monuments that are linked to the history of the state and its symbols." On August 22, 1991 the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky outside the KGB headquarters in Moscow was officially authorized to be removed. The removal of this Dzerzhinsky statue, art historian Dario Gamboni…
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Portrait by Moisey Nappelbaum [ru], 1919
Dzerzhinsky (left) with his fiancée Julia Goldman and her brother Mikhail Liber, 1904
Dzerzhinsky pictured with wife Sofia and son Janek in Lugano (Switzerland), October 1918
Dzerzhinsky at Oryol Prison, 1914