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Grigory Rasputin monument in Tyumen

21.01.201709.04.2020 by Elena

Grigory Rasputin monument in Tyumen

On the territory of the modern perinatal center in Tyumen appeared a monument to Grigory Rasputin. The place was not chosen by chance: it is here the old man was undergoing treatment after being stabbed in the stomach in 1914, and then worked as an orderly. The statue of an old man in a full-length, the hand rests on on a Viennese chair, which according to legend, helped him to heal men’s disease. Rasputin – known historical figure, and he deserves this monument. According to Tyumen sculptor Vladimir Zolotukhin, he used archival photographs working on the monument. The composition appeared thanks to the sponsors of 15 Tyumen enterprises.
Unfortunately, the monument is made of glass, plastic, but such a historical figure deserves a solid monument, at least bronze. Rasputin was a believer, and many of his prophecies come true. He was a real saint, brutally murdered 30 December 1916. All the legends that go of him – no more than a fairy tale, invented by enemies to defame.

Rasputin was born in January 1869 in the village of Pokrovskoye of Tobolsk Province (the territory of modern Tyumen region). Here he lived for 28 years. In 1992, in the native village of Rasputin appeared the museum of his memory. The exhibition consists of belongings of Rasputins family, his personal notes, copies of documents stored in different archives in Russia, and an extensive printed material about Rasputin, published in different languages. Besides, the museum issued the coin to the 130th anniversary of the birth of GE Rasputin. The stamp was made in the Tyumen factory of medical equipment and instruments in 1999.