Description of the attraction
The history of the letter "E" in the Russian alphabet began in 1783, when at a meeting of the Academy of Literature Princess Dashkova proposed to use the letter combination "io". And although the proposal of Ekaterina Dashkova was supported, it was time consuming to replenish the alphabet with new letters in those days with the technology of manual typing, and Russia saw "E" in printed form only in 1796. Perhaps the introduction of the letter in the 18-19th centuries was hampered by the widespread opinion that "yokane" was a dialect of the rabble, and the source of the literary language was the Church Slavonic school, where literate priests used "E" instead of "E".
The birthday of "Yo" is considered August 17, 1796, when the university printing house in Moscow published a collection of poems "Aonida" edited by the writer and historian N. Karamzin. After 1918, writing an unpretentious letter became desirable, but not required, which subsequently led to verbal and written confusion. V. Chumakov and E. Pchelov, the authors of the modern book "Two centuries of the Russian letter (e)", stood up to defend the long-suffering letter, describing the significance of the letter in modern writing.
Next to the Museum of History and Local Lore, in the depths of NM Karamzin's park, on November 3, 2005, a monument to the letter "E" was opened, 2, 05 meters high and weighing more than three tons. The monument is a triangular prism made of red granite with an embossed letter "E" in the form of a letter, only greatly enlarged. The author and initiator of the project for the installation of the monument, A. Zinin, conveyed the writing of the letter in granite in the form in which it was first printed in the almanac of Nikolai Karamzin.
The monument to the letter "Yo" is the pride and history of Ulyanovsk.
