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Fallen Monument Park

Muzeon Park of the Fallen Heroes in Moscow - Russia's only amazing museum of sculpture in the open , the park "Museon" began with the dismantled Soviet sculptures, now there you can find a variety of styles. It was founded in 1992 and was originally conceived as an art park in the neighborhood to the Tretyakov Gallery and the Central House of the artist. Walking around the paths, you can meet old soviet figures as Lenine and Staline. The collection of more than 700 Muzeon sculptures, many of them are outstanding monuments of the Soviet era. The park is a great visual tour through the history of Russia.

The most famous Bolshevik leader in the world. Lenin's real name was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many monuments and statues were torn off their bases and discarded. With the fall of the USSR, the thousands of Soviet statues were destroyed or dispersed. Some ended up here in the Fallen Monument Park. As they tumbled where workers had thrown them, so they lay for approximately a year, until their significance to history became clearer and the park, now known as the Fallen Monument Park, began to take shape. The park was officially established in 1992, and is known in Russia as the Muzeon Park of Arts or Sculpture Park. 

Fallen Monument Park is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the modern art division of Tretyakov Gallery and Central House of Artists. It is located between the Park Kultury and the Oktyabrskaya underground stations. The various sections of the park take visitors on a journey through different times in the history of Russia, and it is a recommended attraction for foreign visitors in Moscow.

As mentioned, the Fallen Monument Park was created accidently, but all the sculptures have now been restored, even though they no longer have their original pedestals. The sculptures in the Fallen Monument Park section include propaganda statues of the time, and include leaders such as Stalin and Lenin. Modern sculptures began to compliment the park in later years, and in total the park now has more than seven hundred sculptures for visitors to marvel at.

Also known as Art Muzeon or Park of the Fallen Heroes, the park has mutilated busts of Stalin, as well as those of Lenin and a statue of Dzerzhinsky, the founder of what became the KGB. There's a massive Soviet emblem, and clusters of modern art contrasting with the very non-conceptual Communist monuments.The origins of this expatriate English name are unknown; in Russian, the park is either simply named Sculpture Park of the Central House of Artists or referred to by its legal title, Muzeon Park of Arts.

Muzeon Park currently displays over 700 sculptures. It is split into themed sections, i.e. the Oriental Garden, Pushkin Square, Portrait Row, although the best known part — the fallen monuments themselves — appeared here before 1992. In October 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed, smaller socialist realism statues of Soviet leaders and unidentifiable workers and peasants were removed from their pedestals, hauled to the park and left in their fallen form. They were rectified later, although missing original pedestals. In 1990s these statues shaped the park outline, but as more and more modern sculpture was added and as the young trees grew up, they became a less obvious minority.

In 1995, Muzeon added a World War II section - these sculptures, of the same socialist realism vintage, were never displayed in open air before. In 1998 the park acquired 300 sculptures of victims of communist rule made by Evgeny Chubarov, installed as a single group. The park also holds temporary summer shows of modern artists.