Prayer for Ukraine (sculpture)

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The memorial in May 2019
The memorial July 2009

The memorial Prayer for Ukraine ( Ukrainian Молитва за Україну ) is a sculpture group opened in 2009 in the Ukrainian city ​​of Baturyn .

The sculptures that were erected in the years 2008/09 by the Ukrainian sculptor Mykola Masur ( Микола Іванович Мазур ; 1948–2015) and his son Bohdan Masur ( Богдан Миколайович Мазур ; * 1969) are part of the national historical monument protection group . Hetman Residence ” by Baturyn and was opened on January 22nd, 2009 with the participation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko .

presentation

The group of sculptures, cast from bronze, is on a round arched base and depicts five Ukrainian hetmans , whose active time was in the period when Baturyn was the capital of the Cossack hetmanate .

These are, in particular: Demjan Mnohohrischnyj , Ivan Samojlowytsch , Ivan Masepa , Pylyp Orlyk , and Kirill Rasumowski .

In a fictitious meeting, they are symbolically gathered around a table on which a map of the Ukraine is spread out in order to achieve one goal together: Ukraine on the one hand. In 2014, interlaced semi-arches were added to the three pillars, over which a figure of the Mother of God hovers.

Web links

Commons : Baturyn - «Getmans»  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Homepage of the National History and Culture Reserve “Hetman Residenz” on baturin-capital.gov.ua ; accessed on July 15, 2019 (Russian)
  2. Monument to Ukraine on md-ukraine.com ; accessed on July 14, 2019 (Russian)

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 33 ″  N , 32 ° 53 ′ 4 ″  E