Pet the dog's nose on Revolution Square. Sculptures of the metro station "Revolution Square": history, photographs, signs

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“If you pat the dog’s face in the morning, touch the student’s shoe and stroke the rooster’s comb, the day will go by without a hitch. The dog, the rooster and the student don’t even mind at all and it’s easy to find them. They are frozen in bronze and stand in the same places at the Ploshchad Revolutsii metro station. Rarely does a subway passenger pass by without touching the statues. There is a popular belief: each sculpture brings its own luck. Stroke the bronze statue and you will be happy!

“Revolution Square” is a place of prayer. Who is not worshiped here! Most pilgrims gather at the monument “Border Guard with a Dog”. Students and schoolchildren crowd around the sculpture. Examinations soon. And every student knows that in order to successfully pass a test or a test, you need to stroke the nose of a bronze dog. This is a sacred thing! Therefore, on the eve of the session service dog Queues form.

They say that the tradition of pulling the nose of a shepherd dog came from Baumanka students. Even on the student website of MSTU. Bauman has the following post: “Sooner or later, every student is faced with the need to take tests and exams. For the “process” to be successful, you need to stroke the nose and paws of the border dog. Her name is Mukhtar. It is located at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station. After this, success in the exam is guaranteed. The dog is a borderline dog and has an exceptional sense of smell. He will just help you choose the right ticket and give the correct answer."

"Revolution Square" is guarded by four identical dogs. Students of the capital's universities argue about which noses help in which matters. Some say that Mukhtar, who sits opposite the third carriage from the end of the train, if traveling from the center, brings good luck in the exam. The faithful friend of the border guard, who serves on the opposite platform, is approached by those who dream of coping with bad habits. People approach the dogs of valiant warriors that stand in the center of the lobby near the passage to pat them on the face before an important matter or a serious deal, so that everything goes well. Especially zealous students, that is, “nerds,” insist that all four shepherd dogs should rub their noses. It will not be worse.

All “underground” dogs have cold muzzles. And after you stroke them, your mind becomes clear. The student has more confidence, peace of mind and the ability to concentrate. After this, passing the exam is a piece of cake. If, of course, you sit on the tickets a couple of nights before.
The main thing is not to make a mistake in choosing a bronze statue. Suddenly, you stroke the wrong thing, and instead of good luck at the session, you end up with a wad of North American dollars in your pocket.

In addition to man's friends, Moscow subway passengers on Revolution Square “worship” roosters. This is what gourmets do. They say that if you fray a cockscomb, you will eat deliciously and deliciously on that day. Others believe that the rooster brings financial well-being.

Passengers unhappy in love go to a Soviet student. They say that if you hold her shoe, your soul becomes lighter. The bronze girl consoles and shares the burden of a “difficult” relationship.

The security officer with a revolver was chosen by those who strive to defeat internal and external enemies. The sailor is made a wish for a fabulous and romantic journey. If you touch the pencil of a young scientist, then good luck scientific activity secured. If they touch the security officer’s Mauser, the day will be “five” points both financially and in business terms.

You just have to do everything one by one. First, make a wish, then rub the bronze statue. Well, wait for the thought to materialize.
So people stroke, and rub, and tug. And the bronze statue is only better for it. Shines like gold."

Moscow metro station "Ploshchad Revolyutsii" is notable for the fact that its lobby resembles an underground sculpture museum. Passengers arriving at the station are greeted by frozen history in bronze. In its arches there are sculptures of heroes who lived during the formation of the young country of the Soviets: sailors and soldiers, peasants and workers, students and children - seventy-six figures in total. Due to the repetition of sculptural images, it seems that there are many of them, but in fact there are only twenty of them. Behind almost every sculpture there is a person, his destiny. In this review you can learn about the names, some of them.

The creator of a multi-figure composition of bronze sculptures united by the theme: revolution, civil war and peaceful pre-war times - People's Artist of the USSR, Matvey Genrikhovich Manizer (1891–1966). In 1943, the Stalin Prize in the amount of one hundred thousand rubles, received by the sculptor for this creative work, was transferred by him to the National Defense Fund.

At the end of the 30s, when these figures were cast, the country was already quite firmly on its feet. And young people of 25-30 years old, who served as prototypes for the sculptures, lived with faith and hope for a happy life in a rapidly developing country. No one knew then what awaited them, and millions more like them, a few years later. And how many of them will survive after the war, and how their destinies will turn out.

Alexey Diomidovich Nikitenko

In the second arc starting from west side- a peasant with a rifle and a sailor with a revolver, the prototype of which was Alexey Nikitenko, a student at the Naval School named after. Frunze in Leningrad. His appearance fully corresponded to the established image of a revolutionary sailor. In 1937, for six months, 4 hours a day, with a revolver in his hand and belted with machine gun belts, Alexey posed for Manizer. At that pre-war time, a strong-built guy, went in for sports, took part in boat races. Alexey Diomidovich went through the war and rose to the rank of captain of a large warship.

Sailor-signalman from the battleship "Marat"

Crushing" in 1942, almost all command staff was sent to court and sentenced to death. And Rudakov was stripped of his rank and sent to the front in a penal company to atone for his guilt with blood.

Olympy Ivanovich, after serious wounds and heroic deeds, was rehabilitated and restored to the rank of officer. And since 1944 he served in the navy as a commander.

History repeated itself: in 1953, as the commander of the cruiser Sverdlov, Olympy Ivanovich Rudakov was again off the coast of Great Britain at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. During which the queen herself accepted an ermine robe from the hands of Olympia Rudakov - a gift from the government Soviet Union. And having invited a naval officer to a waltz, the queen animatedly communicated with Olympius, which entailed a lot different stories“about the unhappy love of a queen and a simple Russian sailor.”

Subsequently, the legendary naval officer continued to serve in the navy and train cadets at the military academy.

Border guard with a dog

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Bronze figures of a miner with a hammer and a student froze in a nearby arch.
The prototype of the image of a young man with a book was Arkady Antonovich Gidrat - a teacher at the Institute of Physical Education, an athlete, multiple champion of Moscow and USSR record holder in high jump with a result of 191.5 cm.

He volunteered for the Finnish War, and when he returned, he wrote a PhD in pedagogy, but never had time to defend it. The Patriotic War made its own adjustments. On the Sinyavinsky Heights near Leningrad in September 1941, Arkady Gidrat’s company fought to the death, preventing the enemy from closing the blockade ring around the city. The battle was brutal, and after it, Lieutenant Arkady Gidrat was listed as missing for about sixty years.

Thanks to volunteers who are still conducting search work on the battlefields, the remains of Arkady Hydrat were discovered and identified in the early 2000s. A member of the search expedition, Vyacheslav Prokhorenko, found a soldier’s medallion in the tunic of an unknown officer.

This is how he recalls that precious find: “The paper is thin, thin, the letters are barely visible. It was impossible to leave it until the morning. The letters would have blurred, and the paper would have dried out and crumbled. We collected flashlights from all the detachments and decided to unfold the note in the dark. Four hours in tense silence by the light of flashlights, in trembling from tired hands, I manage to unfold the note and read: “Gidrat Arkady Antonovich, city of Gus-Khrustalny, village of Krasny”. And at the end Arkady added: "Live happily!"

Soon the daughter of Arkady Hydrat, Olga, was found. And imagine the surprise of the volunteers when the fact emerged that the lieutenant they found was immortalized in bronze during his lifetime. To his sculpture at the metro station all these long years mother and daughter walked, brought flowers to the foot and mourned their beloved husband and father.

And now there is one less missing soldier. But there are still several million of them missing, left lying in the ground.

You can find out even more about the little-known facts of the Patriotic War in the review:

A unique gallery of bronze sculptures at the Ploshchad Revolutsii station displays the history of the Soviet people; images of the revolution and subsequent happy life under socialism. The lower part of the station is lined with black marble, with sculptures located in dark red arches. To fit large figures into limited space station, I had to give them somewhat constrained poses. According to legend, the whole capital seemed to be laughing at this: why the entire Soviet people were either sitting or kneeling. However, Stalin liked the statues, so no one began to change anything.

Among the sculptures stand out statues illustrating real events. A sailor in a cap with the inscription “Marat” is reminiscent of the battleship, which became famous not only in Sergeimikhalkov’s “Uncle Styopa,” but also quite realistically during the Great Patriotic War. A girl sniper with a “Voroshilov Shooter” badge illustrates the propaganda of mass defense work in the country. In the pre-war years, mastery of shooting turned into a broad movement of workers and youth.

Also noteworthy are the sculptures with details polished to a shine. This is due to various Moscow traditions. The statue of a border guard with a dog, according to students, if you rub the dog’s nose the day before, it brings successful passing of exams. Those who want to avoid unhappy love should rub the student's bronze slipper. Good luck in scientific activity will be brought by touching the compass of a young engineer-inventor. True, this compass has long been missing from all four sculptures - it was stolen... Who and for what purpose “rubs” the sailor’s revolver, and occasionally even steals it from the hands of a bronze statue, also remains a mystery...

Metro station Revolution Square is a place of pilgrimage for Moscow students. At the height of the session, a whole line of “suffering knowledge” forms at the bronze figure of a border guard with a dog: if on the eve of the exam you rub the shepherd’s nose with your palm or touch its head with a record book, success is guaranteed. At first, “Mukhtar” was used for this purpose, which serves near the third car (from the end of the train), if you go towards “Shchelkovskaya”. Now all four dogs are responsible for “making wishes come true” (there are exactly so many sculptural “borderline” compositions at the station), and not only Muscovites, but also guests of the capital have joined in the simple game - make a wish and rub your nose. For what? “For luck, “for happiness” - this is how many answer.

The famous “Wolverine” and “Van Helsing”, Hollywood-Australian actor Hugh Jackman, who once visited Moscow, did not take advantage of the opportunity.

At the same station there is another “lucky sculpture” - a sailor with a flag. They say that if you touch the flag held by a sailor on your way to work, you will have a good day. The belief is associated with a maritime sign: it is a good day when the flag is raised on the ship.

Another sculpture is the Rooster. The Rooster's beak rubs towards money. They also touch the weapons of a sailor and a border guard, touch a collective farmer, books in the hands of a girl...

It seems that soon all the statues of the complex will acquire their own myths. More than once I had to observe pregnant women touching sculptures of a mother with a child and young women sliding their palm over her chest or over a sculpture depicting a young man with a boy, young athletes rubbing a disk from a girl athlete or a ball from a football player, schoolchildren running their hands over sculptures airplane model boys or girls with a globe...

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Surely, everyone who has ever been to the Moscow metro has noticed that at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, many of the sculptures decorating the arches have some parts polished to a shine, and passers-by stop to touch the sculptures. Even in the heat of the day or rush hour, people find time to come up and pet this or that figure, sometimes even forming a line. This tradition has been around for many years - ever since the metro was built.

History of sculptures at the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station

So, a little history. The hall at the station is decorated with 76 bronze figures depicting Soviet people, created by Matvey Manizer. Initially there were 80 sculptures, but due to the opening of the eastern ground lobby in 1947, 4 of them were removed. There are a total of 20 different images at the station. All sculptures are arranged in chronological order from the events of October 1917 to December 1937.

If you look closely, all the figures except those of the pioneers are depicted kneeling, bending or sitting. This was done specifically to fit them into the limited space of the arches. But there was a popular joke about this: “At the station it is shown that the entire Soviet people are bending or on their knees.”

So where did the tradition of touching these sculptures and making wishes come from?

In 1931, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was blown up. Only a small number of fragments of wall paintings, a small part of church utensils, and a few bas-reliefs were recognized as objects of artistic significance and transferred to museums. Everything else was lost forever. The government decided to use all the material for the needs of the city. The Kropotkinskaya and "Kropotkinskaya" metro stations were lined with marble from the Temple. Okhotny Ryad", benches decorated the Novokuznetskaya station. Some of the plates with the names of heroes Patriotic War In 1812, paths in Moscow parks were crumbled and sprinkled, and some of them were used to decorate city buildings. The bells were melted down, and some sculptures were made from them to decorate the station. This is where the story begins. According to legend, it was the dog that was cast from the melted down bell. Devoted, believing old women came to venerate the sculpture, and after them, smart students of the Bauman Moscow Higher Technical School, located one station from Revolution Square, happily adopted this tradition and began to rub their noses for good luck.

Over time, the sign has undergone minor changes. Now you need to touch your nose with the “record book”, to successful completion For the exam, you need to touch the dog’s nose, and to pass the test, you need to touch its paw.
Since the bronze figures at the station are repeated, there are four dogs. All four have shiny noses. But the most “correct dog” is the one that is closer to the exit in the direction from the center.

You can believe or not believe in omens. But every day, for good luck, not only students rub the dog’s nose, but ordinary city residents and even guests of the capital.

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The Ploshchad Revolyutsii station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is one of the very first stations of the Moscow metro, commissioned in pre-war 1937. The uniqueness of this station is given by 76 bronze sculptures placed in arches both along the platforms and in the central hall. These sculptures are frozen living symbols of times October revolution, the civil war and the subsequent years of the formation of Soviet power: soldiers, sailors, collective farmers, workers, pioneers and schoolchildren - 4 copies of each sculpture (more precisely, only 18 are presented four times, and two - twice). Passengers of the Moscow metro, while at the Revolution Square station, can observe how people constantly stop near one or another sculpture and begin to rub and stroke some bronze elements, and all these elements are already polished to a mirror shine.

The sculpture of a border guard with a dog is especially popular. No one is particularly interested in the border guard, but the dog, or rather four dogs, is constantly in the spotlight. The tradition of stroking the nose of a bronze animal was invented in 1938 by students of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, which is located on the same metro line at the Shchelkovskaya station. One of the students decided that if you stroke a dog's nose before the exam, the exam will be passed successfully. Then the opinion arose that stroking a dog's paw would bring good luck in the competition.
Initially, only one of the four dogs was considered “magical” - the one that is located when exiting the third carriage from the end of the train in the direction from the center to Shchelkovskaya. Later, all four dogs were endowed with magical properties, and students not only of Baumanka, but also of other universities were drawn to them. It’s funny, but sometimes in the midst of a session, whole crowds gather around the bronze dogs or even lines of students line up. Some people specially go to the dog before an exam “for good luck,” even if the university is located on the other side of Moscow. You can watch scenes when a young man or girl jumps out of an approaching train, grabs a dog by the nose, and then manages to jump back into the car before the doors close. Aerobatics is to rub the noses of all four dogs, then there will definitely be a minimum of “four” in the record book.
Over time, not only students, but also other citizens fell in love with the dog: they stroke its nose and paws for good luck, for luck in business, just to make the day successful. Some fleetingly touch the sculpture as they pass by, while others stand for a long time, muttering something and almost praying to the bronze animal. Does a dog grant wishes? Very likely, otherwise it would not have been so popular.

Another favorite sculpture among passengers at the Revolution Square station is a poultry house with a rooster and hen. It is believed that if you rub the beak of a rooster, your financial situation will certainly improve: the person will receive a bonus, a promotion, or an increase in salary. As a result, the rooster's beak shines like gold. However, there is another opinion that it is not easy to stroke a rooster, and especially its beak, but even accidentally touch it - this can bring misfortune. Therefore, if anyone wants to experiment, four roosters daily are at your service.

Girls seeking a serious relationship with a young man or even marriage approach the statue of a student reading a book. Just rub the bronze slipper and you can wait for your prince! The student with the shoe also “helps” those who already have a couple and are threatened by discord: touching the shoe will prevent unhappy love.

The sculpture of a mother and child also naturally attracts young girls and women. It is logical that the various details of this sculpture concern those who have a desire to give birth to a child, as well as pregnant women asking for a safe birth. Sometimes you can see representatives of the fairer sex running their palms over the chest of a bronze woman - one can only guess for what purpose.