Memory of Russia: Results of the competition for a monument to Patriarch Hermogenes

The results of the competition for a monument to Patriarch Hermogenes - one of the instigators of the fight with the Polish troops in troubled times, which will be installed in the Alexander Garden in Moscow, are summed up in Moscow.

The Alexander Gardens is located just a few meters from the Kremlin. The place was not chosen by chance. On that side of the Kremlin wall, in the Miracle Monastery, which was destroyed after the revolution, has died in prison Patriarch Hermogenes, tortured by hunger by Poles for having called on the people to release the Kremlin and Moscow from Polish invaders.

The jury was headed by Metropolitan Hilarion. One of the conditions of the contest was a portrait of iconographic similarities. Also in the monument is should sound an idea about the role of Patriarch Hermogenes in the Time of Troubles. Largely thanks to him that it was formed militia of Minin and Pozharsky.

The project design by sculptor Salavat Scherbakov has won. His version, according to the jury, was the best that embodied the image of the Patriarch of the Time of Troubles.

It is scheduled that the monument will be installed and sanctified in May 2013, to the centenary of the canonization of Patriarch Hermogenes.