Description of the attraction
The monument to the architects of the Kazan Kremlin is located in the park, laid out near the Annunciation Cathedral and the Bishops' House of the Kremlin. The sculptural composition was conceived as a collective image of architects of various nationalities who built the Kremlin's objects in different eras. This is a monument to all the architects who worked in the Kremlin and created the unique architectural appearance of the complex.
The layout of the functional zones and the structure of the territory of the Kazan Kremlin was formed during the period of the Kazan Khanate, in the 15th - 16th centuries. All buildings of that time were created by Tatar architects. The remains of these buildings have survived. During archaeological excavations carried out in the Kremlin, archaeological remains of the largest structures for that time were found: palaces, towers, mausoleums and mosques.
After the capture of Kazan by the army of Ivan the Terrible in 1552, the Kremlin began to be actively built up by Russian architects. The construction proceeded in accordance with the layout of the Kremlin that had already taken shape by that time. The buildings of these architects, created in different centuries, can be seen on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin.
The monument to the architects of the Kazan Kremlin was conceived in 2001. The project of the monument was created by a group of authors: sculptors A. V. Golovachev and V. A. Demchenko and architect R. M. Zabirova. The monument was inaugurated on November 18, 2003.
The monument represents the figures of two architects - a Tatar court architect with a scroll of a drawing of the Khan's palace and a Russian architect with drawings of the Spasskaya tower. There are two ornaments encircling it on the pedestal of the monument. In the lower part of the pedestal there is a Tatar ornament, and in the upper part there is a Russian one. This arrangement of ornaments is a symbol of the historical sequence of cultural layers. The idea of the authors is to create a sculptural composition that conveys the interpenetration and mutual enrichment of cultures: Russian and Tatar.
