Police arrested 24-year-old young man who, on 8 may, he broke off a piece of the sword at the monument to the great Russian commander Mikhail Kutuzov in the square before the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
“As he explained in the police Department, the statue has damaged by accident when trying to make a spectacular photo of a loved one”, – said the representative of the Moi in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region. During a search in apartment of the inhabitant of Vsevolozhsk of Leningrad region, the police found a fragment of a sword.
“The question on election concerning it a preventive measure,” – said the police. Earlier the Department of internal Affairs opened a criminal case on the fact of damage of a monument under part 1 article 243 of the criminal code of Russian Federation “Destruction or damage of cultural heritage objects”.
As reported earlier, the State Museum of urban sculpture, an exhibit of which is the statue of the commander, the restoration of the monument to Kutuzov will be complex and require multiple stages of work.
The monuments of the two generals of the Patriotic war of 1812 – Mikhail Kutuzov and Mikhail Barclay de Tolly – were installed at the Kazan Cathedral in 1837, to the 25th anniversary of the victory over Napoleon. The height of the statue, made by sculptor Boris Orlovsky, is 4.1 meters, the pedestal is 3.5 meters. The monument has been included in the Unified state register of objects of cultural heritage of Russia.
In the Kazan Cathedral is the tomb of Kutuzov, so the monument and the square in front of the Cathedral in the XIX century became known as one of the places of Russian military glory.
