The
Second Composition |
Figures of the second composition :
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Peasant woman |
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| Bearing a millstone |
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| Recruit- soldier |
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| The second composition |
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 The second group of
statues is a symbol of the working people suffering under tzarist oppression. This thought
is expressively shown in a statue of a man bearing a heavy weight on his sholders - a
millstone (A.M. Buchma posed for this statue): the image calls for a protest against the
oppression of a man. |
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| The statue of a woman is somewhat moved
aside from the other figures: this is the sculpture of a peasant woman. Her presence in
general composition of this group is full of deep sence: a woman of the people in tzarist
Russia was the most cowed and deprived of rights creature. But in all times Russian women
were active participants of the struggle against the oppressors. Neither actress
S.V.Koval, who posed for this image, nor sculptor sined against the historical truth. The
woman face reflects the resolution and protest, she holds rake and flait like the
arm. |
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| Thr statue of a recruit-soldier of the tzarist army
is perseived like an Atlant. His calm pose adds to the monumentality of the image, it is
accentuated by almost parallel folds of greatcoat. But his calmness is only the external
one. Great passions are storming in this man, disturbing thoughts have inclined his head
and furrowed his forehead with tragic wrincles, clenced his lips : |
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Oh, thoughts, my thoughts, |
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Oh, my native ones! |
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Don't leave me, you at least , |
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In the years of troubles. |
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| Quite consciously the sculptor imparted the resemblence
with T.G. Shevchenko self-portrait in 1857 - the year of Shevchenko's return from the
severe tzarist excile of many years - to the appearance of this soldier. Namely the excile
period was the time of coming-to-be the real internationalist and revolutionary
democrat for Shevchenko. This sculpture enriched the matter of Shevchenko's central
statue. |
