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The erection of the Stefan Nemanja monument was completed yesterday in front of the Belgrade train station building, and to this day this sculpture has been discovered.
Photo: Stefan Tomasevic / ATAImagesThe monument is 23 meters high and weighs 68 tons, and shows Stefan Nemanja with a sword in one hand and the Hilandar Letter in the other. It is placed on a cracked Byzantine helmet and is part of the plateau in front of the train station, which is under reconstruction.
Belgrade Deputy Mayor Goran Vesić wrote yesterday on Facebook that the work of Russian sculptor and scholar Aleksandar Rukavišnjikov will soon be completely finished.
“Citizens can already get the impression of how well this monument will fit into the environment of the new Sava square. Apart from its high artistic value, this monument has great historical and cultural importance for the Serbian people. Stefan Nemanja is the founder of the Serbian state and later of the Serbian empire. “We want to show the whole world that the continuity of Serbian statehood lasts and lasts for more than 800 years,” Vesić said.
Since the announcement, this monument has been criticized by the professional public.
The president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), Vladimir Kostic, recently said to Nedeljnik, that there is no doubt that Stefan Nemanja deserves a monument.
“Personally, I am not close to the aesthetic line that determines this current monument, the dimensions that lead me to the dilemma of whether it is the right balance of the need to return the great man of our history or some other, our needs that he you just need to illustrate, ”he said. Kostic.
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