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Today, the Deputy Mayor of Belgrade, Goran Vesić, inaugurated a monument to the blind Guslar in Kalemegdan, which was made more than 100 years ago as part of the monument to Karađorđe.
The sculpture was placed near the Monument of Gratitude to France, and was once part of the composition of the Karadjordj monument, which was located in Kalemegdan between 1913 and 1916, and is the only preserved part of the monument destroyed by the Austro-Hungarian occupiers of Belgrade in 1916.
According to the chroniclers, the Karadjordj monument was then broken and only the Blind Guslar sculpture remains.
The idea of returning the sculpture Blind Guslar, more than 20 years ago, came from the recently deceased archaeologist Marko Popovic, who, together with the Public Company “Belgrade Fortress” and the Museum of the City of Belgrade, found the sculpture, and that idea was later updated by Vesic.
The sculpture was returned to its original state by the sculptor Zoran Kuzmanović, and the missing parts were cast: part of the little finger, gusal and stick.
The Karadjordj monument was inaugurated on August 13, 1913, on the occasion of the return of the Serbian army from the Balkan wars, and consisted of a composition in which the leader Karadjordj stands on a rock under which there are several insurgents , a woman with a child in her arms. pants.
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