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\n \n MUSEUM OF CITY SCULPTURE, State Museum of City Sculpture (STCS) (179/2 Nevsky Prospect) was organised in 1939 with the aim to keep records, provide protection and carry out restoration of major monuments, monumental and decorative buildings and decorative headstones. In 2002 the State Museum of City Sculpture maintained over 400 city monuments and 1500 memorial plaques. The monuments includes Russia's first sculptural monument known as the Bronze Horseman, monuments glorifying victories of the Russian army, sculptural portraits of literary figures, musicians, scholars, admirals, travellers, monumental decorative works of plastic art (represented by works of B. Rastrelli, E. М. Falconet, М. I. Kozlovsky, B. I. Orlovsky, P. . Klodt, А. М. Opekushin, K.V. Isenberg, М. G. Manizer, N. V. Tomsky, V. V. Lishev, М. . Anikushin et al.). Blagoveshchensky burial vault, Lazarevsky burial vault, Necropolis of the 18th century and Necropolis of Art Masters located on the territory of Alexander Nevsky Lavra, and Literatorskie Mostki Cemetery are under the museum's jurisdiction. The funds contain projects of monuments to А. S. Pushkin (1937 and 1949), V. G. Belinsky, А. N. Ostrovsky (never completed), N. V. Gogol, P. I. Tchaikovsky, М. Gorky, V. I. Lenin, Prince Alexander Nevsky et al. During the siege the museum staff provided protection form artillery shelling to more than 200 monuments. It was also with the contribution of the State Museum of City Sculpture that restoration was carried out on the Moscow Triumphal Gates (1958), the Bronze Horseman (1976-77), the monument to Peter the Great in front of the Engineers’ Castle (Connetable, 1986), the Narva Triumphal Gates (later shown in the museum, 1987), monument to the Steregushchy torpedo-boat (1990), Rostral Columns (1999-2000), Alexander Column (2002-03), and Blagoveshchensky burial vault (with a renewed exposition, 1989-2001). In 2002 a new Exhibition Hall was opened at 179/2 Nevsky Prospect.

References: Нетунахина Г. Д. Музей городской скульптуры: Путеводитель. 3-е изд., испр. и доп. Л., 1981; Кудрявцев А. И., Шкода Г. Н. Александро-Невская лавра: Архит. ансамбль и памятники некрополей. Л., 1986; Пирютко Ю. М. Кладбища Александро-Невской лавры // Исторические кладбища Петербурга: Справ.-путеводитель. СПб., 1993. С. 130-215; Его же. Государственный музей городской скульптуры: Крат. путеводитель. СПб., 2002.

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\n \n \n \n Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)\n
\n \n \n \n \n \n Kozlovsky Mikhail Ivanovich\n
\n \n \n \n Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich\n
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\n \n \n \n Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich\n
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