Description of the attraction
The monument to Father Fyodor was erected on the platform of the first platform of the Kharkiv South Railway Station. Father Fyodor is a character in the novel "The Twelve Chairs" by E. Petrov and I. Ilf, who served as a priest in the Church of Frol and Lavr in the county town N. purposes, and went in search of treasures.
The idea to erect a monument in Kharkov to this character belongs to Konstantin Kevorkyan, director of the channel "First Capital". In his interview, K. Kevorkian emphasized that the monument should be erected precisely in Kharkov, since the authors of this immortal humorous novel began to be creative in Kharkov. And, as he argued, the sculpture of Fyodor's father should be located exactly at this station, because it was there that he wrote his letter to his wife - "mother" Katerina Alexandrovna.
A bronze sculpture depicting Father Fyodor walking, holding a kettle in his left hand and a sealed letter to his wife in his right hand, is located on a marble pedestal. It also contains a quote from a letter from Fyodor's father: "Kharkov is a noisy city, the center of the Ukrainian Republic. After the provinces, it seems as if he has gone abroad." And below the inscription: "The first capital - to Father Fyodor". The prototype of the monument was the famous actor M. Pugovkin, who played this role in one of the many film adaptations of the novel. According to the sculptor-creator Alexander Tabachnikov, it was Pugovkin who managed to best embody the image of Fyodor's father.
The height of the bronze sculpture is 170 cm, and it weighs about 300 kg.
The monument was created thanks to the active participation of the Peresvet Charitable Foundation, the Irisa Publishing House, the Southern Railways Administration, the Kharkiv Courier newspaper and the Pervaya Stolitsa video channel.
