a Memorial plaque to Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim on the facade of the Military Academy of logistics after the application of blows with an axe the activists of “Other Russia”, October 2016
In St. Petersburg charged the Board Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, installed in June of this year. Memorial sign to the Finnish Marshal repeatedly doused with paint, and in October, activists chopped it with an axe.
the plaque of the Finnish Marshal Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was removed from the facade of the building at zakharievskaya street in St. Petersburg, reports TASS. The same information confirmed by “Interfax” and “Fontanka”. The latter writes that the Board was removed “unknown”. Also, the magazine has published photos from the event.
According to TASS, currently, working, paint over the place where was located the Board. They told the news Agency that the removal happened around 22.30 GMT. Customer dismantling workers did not name, saying only that they were hired “just to paint over the holes on the wall.”
the Russian military historical society on its website said that the Board Mannerheim moved to the world war I Museum in Tsarskoye Selo. “Now he [the memorial sign] will be stored as an exhibit in the Museum of the First world war “Military chamber”, — stated in the message of the organization.
In late September, the Smolninsky district court of St. Petersburg rejected an administrative claim to the city government with the requirement to dismantle the Board Mannerheim and recognize its installation is illegal. With the claim addressed a resident of St. Petersburg Pavel Kuznetsov.
However, later a source in the government of Petersburg has told to “Interfax” that the Board will be dismantled. This will be done before the end of 2016, said the Agency interlocutor. “There is a decision to dismantle the Board. It will remove the same, and who has established,” said the source. He added that the Board looks “unpresentable” due to the continuous attacks of the vandals.
a Memorial plaque Mannerheim was established in June of this year on the facade of the building, where in the nineteenth century housed the barracks of the cavalry guard regiment, where Mannerheim was stationed after graduating from the Nikolaev military Academy.
After a memorial plaque was installed, it was repeatedly doused with paint, in early October it was discovered damage similar to traces of bullets, October 10 activists of “Other Russia” has chopped her with an axe.
“Personality Mannerheim hotly debated. But we can say unequivocally that it the outstanding personality and related to our history and the role it will long be studied by historians,” — said the press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov.
Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky, who attended the opening ceremony of the memorial plaque, stressed that the memorial Mannerheim is established in order to preserve the memory. He noted that the erection of monuments to the heroes of the First world war is an attempt to cope with the tragic split in society.
Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was born in 1867 in the Grand Duchy of Finland (part of Russian Empire), from 1887 to 1917, he served in the Russian army, participated in the Russo-Japanese war, he commanded several units in the First world war. After the Bolsheviks came to power, Mannerheim went to Finland, which declared independence from Russia, and in 1918 was appointed commander of the Finnish army. During the Winter war and the Second world war was led by the Finnish army in the battles against the Soviet Union. August 4, 1944, Marshal Mannerheim became President of Finland.
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