Grieving mother: a monument to the dead sons

Several decades ago, the terrible battles of the Great Patriotic War that claimed millions of lives of Soviet citizens died down. In every family came grief, heavy burden on the tormented hearts of people who lost their loved ones. The feats and heroism of fellow countrymen are worth living for centuries: they are passed on from generation to generation, carefully stored in archives, immortalized in memorials and monuments.

Monument of the grieving mother in Perm

One of the monuments reminiscent of the terrible wartime is the "Sorrowful Mother" - a monument erected on April 28, 1928 in Perm. This ten-meter sculpture is located on a high hill at the confluence of the rivers Styx and Egoshihi. The place for the monument was not chosen by chance: it was here, at the Egoshinsky pogost, the last shelter was found dead in hospitals from injuries fighters - defenders of the Fatherland. The erection of the monument was timed to coincide with the 45th anniversary of the Victory; Its author is Yu. F. Yakubenko, architects - MI Futlik and AP Zagorodnikov. His sculpture Ekubenko collected in parts in a specially designated for this building of the plant "Red October". Work lasted 4.5 months. At first the monument was made of concrete, and then the sculptor made a knockout of bronze on it.

"Mourning mother" - a monument in Perm - depicts a woman in a deep grief bending her head. This is the mother, wife, sister, daughter, who blessed the military hero of the beloved man who did not return from the battlefield. Mourning for the loss of her son weighs heavily on her fragile shoulders, silver hair before time, pierces wrinkles on her face and painfully squeezes her heart.

Volgograd grieving mother: a monument

Volgograd. The story seemed frozen in the sculpture of a grieving mother, located on the top of the Mamayev Kurgan and part of the huge memorial complex built in the 60s. Mother, bending over the lifeless body of the deceased son ... A terrible picture, affecting almost every family. The heroes of this monument are a collective image of all mothers who lost people dear to the heart during the war years.

The grieving mother is a monument, originally conceived from a somewhat different angle. Its author - a talented Soviet monumental sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich - wanted to depict the deceased soldier with a face, and then changed his mind and created an abstract image embodying his father, brother, husband, son. The grieving mother is a monument located on the Square of Sorrow and surrounded by Lake Tears, through which a path leads to the monument.

Chelyabinsk. Composition "Mourning Mother"

Grieving for their sons and husbands who remained in the territory of another's land, and in Chelyabinsk. Here, in the Forest Cemetery, where the dead soldiers are buried, the composition "Mourning Mothers" consisting of two female figures - the bride and mother - is installed. Both women face each other and carefully hold a military helmet in their hands. The sculptors EE Golovnitskaya and LN Golovnitskiy and architects IV Talalay and Yu. P. Danilov worked on the creation of the 6-meter sculpture.

Mourning mother: a monument to the dead in Afghanistan

Sons that fulfilled their international duty and died in Afghanistan ... In memory of them in Kursk, a monument to the grieving mother is established. Its author, Nikolai Krivolapov, portrayed a woman mother, spreading over the bodies of her children on cold granite slabs. The names of the dead children, who are never returned, are forever sealed on a silent stone.

Many people, when they are near the monument, feel a deep guilt in front of a deeply grieving mother and those who died in a foreign land. This monument, which does not pretend to be a grandiose grandiose, underscores the whole tragedy of the senselessness of military operations. The memorial makes you think; Everyone who comes here takes with him a touching feeling of gratitude to the author, who perpetuated the feat of young Soviet children.

Composition "Pain" in Vitebsk

Soldiers-internationalists devoted sculptural composition "Pain", representing kneeling mother and son, as if passed through it. The son is bandaged, and his mother swaddling as if mourns for her child. The memorial, cast from aluminum, rests on black granite stones. Nearby is a small chapel, where you can put a funeral candle for those killed in Afghanistan. The grieving mother is a monument to which the alley leads; On both its sides on the granite slabs the names of the inhabitants of Vitebsk, who died in Afghanistan, are carved.