Description of the attraction
The sculptural composition is located between the buildings of the Saratov Administration, the City Duma and the Radishchev Museum on Stolypin Square.
Pyotr Arkadievich Stolypin is a talented reformer, statesman, served as prime minister of the Russian Empire. But for Saratov, he was and remains an honorary citizen of the city and the governor, who elevated the city to the rank of the largest center of industry and trade.
The sculptural composition consists of several symbols of the ideas of the Stolypin reform. The monument includes a 3.5-meter figure of Stolypin, and on four sides of it there are: an Orthodox priest, a peasant, a warrior and a blacksmith. On the pedestal is the phrase "We need a great Russia" from the famous slogan of Pyotr Arkadyevich. The idea of the composition was borrowed from the monument to Alexander II destroyed during the revolutionary period, which stood in front of the entrance to the Lipki Park at the beginning of the twentieth century. The author of the idea is V. M. Klykov, President of the International Foundation for Slavic Culture and Writing.
The inauguration of the monument was timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of this country's reformer, Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (April 17, 2002). Many famous figures of Russia came to the opening of the sculptural composition, but the most pleasant thing for the people of Saratov was to see at the ceremony the great-grandson of Pyotr Arkadyevich, who came from France. After the installation of the monument, the square became known as "Stolypinskaya".
The Saratov sculptural composition became the first monument to P. A. Stolypin in Russia.
