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Historic site in Moscow, Russia
Alley of the rulers of Russia
LocationMoscow, Russia
Built2017
ArchitectZurab Tsereteli

Alley of the rulers of Russia is a sculptural composition located in Moscow, Russia. It consists of a set of identical stelae on which busts of all the rulers of Russia are installed, starting with Prince Rurik. The space where the busts are located is a small square, inside the territory at the address - Petroverigsky Lane, house 4, a square near the Turgenev - Botkin estate.

The opening of the alley took place on May 26, 2017. The ceremony was attended by Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky and Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva. The busts of the Soviet leaders were opened on September 22, 2017, and the bust of the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin was opened on April 23, 2018.

The sculptor who made all the busts is Zurab Tsereteli.

List of rulers represented on the alley

  1. Rurik
  2. Oleg the Seer
  3. Olga of Kiev
  4. Sviatoslav I
  5. Vladimir the Great
  6. Yaroslav the Wise
  7. Vladimir Monomakh
  8. Yuri the Long Hands
  9. Andrey the Pious
  10. Vsevolod the Big Nest
  11. Alexander Nevsky
  12. Ivan I Kalita
  13. Dmitry of the Don
  14. Vasily II the Blind
  15. Ivan III the Great
  16. Vasili III
  17. Ivan IV the Terrible
  18. Feodor I
  19. Boris Godunov
  20. Michael Romanov
  21. Alexis I
  22. Sophia Alekseyevna
  23. Peter I the Great
  24. Anna Ioannovna
  25. Elizabeth Petrovna
  26. Peter III
  27. Catherine II the Great
  28. Paul I
  29. Alexander I
  30. Nicholas I
  31. Alexander II
  32. Alexander III
  33. Nicholas II
  34. Georgy Lvov
  35. Alexander Kerensky
  36. Vladimir Lenin
  37. Joseph Stalin
  38. Nikita Khrushchev
  39. Leonid Brezhnev
  40. Yuri Andropov
  41. Konstantin Chernenko
  42. Mikhail Gorbachev
  43. Boris Yeltsin

Notes

  1. Памятник Ельцину появился на Аллее правителей в Москве

References

55°45′23″N 37°38′11″E / 55.7565°N 37.6365°E / 55.7565; 37.6365

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