Description of the attraction
The symbol of the highest state power in Izhevsk was the Mikhailovskaya Column, established on November 8, 1852. on the ancient, at that time still Alexander's Square, in honor of the Holy Archangel Michael - the heavenly patron saint of gunsmiths and Prince Mikhail Romanov, who was in charge of the country's military industry at that time. The Petersburg analogue of the Alexander Column with the personal monogram of the emperor was created by the Izhevsk architect I. T. Kokovikhin. Surrounded by lattices of metal spears and barrels of old cannons aimed at the ground, the column, which was a triumphant monument to the victory over Napoleon during the Civil War, was demolished.
Restored to celebrate the bicentennial of the Izhevsk arms, a group of architects and sculptors in November 2007, the Mikhailovskaya Column rose to its historical place. It took four types of granite to restore the pedestal of the twenty-meter column, and the sculpture of the Archangel and the state eagles was cast in bronze. Located between Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the tower of the arms factory, a massive column with a fragile figure of an archangel fits perfectly into the architectural axis of the city and the square of the gunsmiths.
The Mikhailovskaya Column today is the only monument in Russia in honor of the Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich Romanov, who headed the Artillery Department and was the brother of the Emperor of Russia.
