Description of the attraction
On the 101st anniversary of the birth of the world famous children's writer and journalist Lev Kassil, on July 11, 2006, a monument "The Fantazer" was erected on Freedom Square. The author of the idea and the sculptor of the monument is the honorary citizen of the city of Engels K. Matveyev. Together with a group of sculptors A. Sadovsky in the park, on the territory of the former Pokrovskaya gymnasium (now the Technological Institute), they embodied the idea in stone - a happy and carefree writer in his youth, a dreamer and dreamer, with a burdock on his head.
Lev Abramovich Kassil - a native of the city of Engels (formerly Pokrovskaya Sloboda), Saratov Region; in his youth - the favorite of the Pokrovskoy children, organizer of circles and editor of a children's magazine, husband of S. V. Sobinova (Saratov Conservatory was named after her father), editor of the Murzilka magazine, in adulthood - chairman of the USSR children's literature commission and head of seminars at Literary Institute named after A. M. Gorky.
Also in Engels there is a House-Museum, where the famous children's writer spent his childhood and adolescence, and a street named after Lev Kassil. The favorite holiday of the city children is the carnival and theatrical performances held on the writer's birthday, in which everyone takes part. For one day, the city of Engels turns into the country of Schwambrania, imbued with the spirit of a kind children's fairy tale.
Monument "Fantazer" is the pride and landmark of the city of Engels, evoking good, childhood memories.
