Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution, Memorial in Field of Mars, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution is a memorial on the Field of Mars in Saint Petersburg, made up of four L-shaped granite walls that form a closed square. Inside this square lie communal graves and granite memorial tablets.
After the February Revolution of 1917, the Petrograd Soviet chose the Field of Mars as a burial ground for those who died during the revolutionary events. The memorial was built in the years that followed, turning the open field into a permanent site of remembrance.
The inscriptions carved into the granite tablets were written by the poet Anatoly Lunacharsky specifically for this memorial. Reading them gives a sense of how early Soviet culture chose to honor its dead in public stone.
The memorial is an open-air site and can be visited year-round without any entry requirements. The Nevsky Prospekt area is within walking distance, along with the Summer Garden and the Marble Palace nearby.
The eternal flame at this site, lit in 1957, was the first of its kind in Russia and later served as a model for many other memorial sites across the country. The Field of Mars itself had previously served as a military parade ground before becoming a public park and then a burial site.
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