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{{Short description|Sculpture of Vladimir Lenin in Moscow}}
{{Infobox monument
| name          = Monument to Lenin on Tverskaya Square
| native_name   = Памятник Ленину на Тверской площади
| image         = File:Moscow BDmitrovka15 7749.jpg
| caption       =
| location      = Tverskaya square, Moscow
| designer      = I.A. Frantsuz
|native_name_lang=ru}}
'''Monument to Lenin on Tverskaya Square''' ({{langx|ru|Памятник Ленину на Тверской площади}}) is a sculpture of [[Vladimir Lenin]] located in front of the [[Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History]] building in Moscow. Established in 1940. The authors of the monument are sculptor [[S. D. Merkurov]] and architect I. A. Frantsuz.<ref name="Кожевников">{{cite book| author = Кожевников Р. Ф. | chapter = Памятники В. И. Ленину| chapter-url = | format = | url =  | title = Скульптурные памятники Москвы | orig-year = | agency =  | edition =   |location= М. |year= 1983 |publisher= Московский рабочий |at=  |volume=  |issue = | pages = | page =  | series =  | isbn = | ref = }}</ref> The monument has the status of an object of cultural heritage of federal significance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://data.mos.ru/opendata/7702155262-obekty-kulturnogo-naslediya-i-vyyavlennye-obekty-kulturnogo-naslediya/row/7664806?pageNumber=4&versionNumber=5&releaseNumber=104 |title=Памятник В. И. Ленину, 1940 г., ск. С. Д. Меркуров, арх. И. А. Француз, гранит |access-date=2018-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708104951/https://data.mos.ru/opendata/7702155262-obekty-kulturnogo-naslediya-i-vyyavlennye-obekty-kulturnogo-naslediya/row/7664806?pageNumber=4&versionNumber=5&releaseNumber=104 |archive-date=2018-07-08 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Description ==
Sculpture of Vladimir Lenin is made of red [[granite]]. It is installed on a pedestal made of blocks of dark gray granite. Lenin is depicted seated and tilted forward. It seems that he listens carefully to his interlocutor. With his left hand, Lenin leaned on his knee, with a notebook in it. The right hand with a pencil - behind the back of the chair. According to art historian N. D. Sobolevsky, "the plastic expression of the sculptural image is in perfect harmony with the psychologically vivid and vivid image of Ilyich".<ref name="Соболевский">{{cite book| author = Соболевский Н. Д. | chapter = | chapter-url = | format = | url =  | title = Скульптурные памятники и монументы в Москве | orig-year = | agency =  | edition =   |location= М. |year= 1947 |publisher= Московский рабочий |at=  |volume=  |issue = | pages = 13| page =  | series =  | isbn = | ref = }}</ref>
The location of the monument was not chosen randomly. Lenin repeatedly spoke at the Tverskaya (then Soviet) Square from the balcony of the [[Moscow City Hall Building|Moscow City Council building]] (now [[Government of Moscow|Moscow City Hall]]), which is reminiscent of a memorial plaque. The monument was installed opposite the building of the Lenin Institute under the [[Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Central Committee]] of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU (b)]].
Before the installation of the monument, the sculpture of Lenin was demonstrated at the World Exhibition in 1939 in [[New York City]].
== References ==
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[[Category:Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow]]
[[Category:Tverskoy District]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials in Moscow]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials to Vladimir Lenin]]
[[Category:Outdoor sculptures in Moscow]]