Plevna Chapel

The chapel on a 19th-century photochrom postcard

The Plevna Chapel is a public subscription monument to the Russian Grenadiers who died during the Siege of Plevna. It was opened on a square outside the Ilyinka Gate of the Walled City in Moscow on the 10th anniversary of the taking of Pleven (1887), in the presence of Field Marshal Nikolai Nikolayevich.[1] The monument was designed by Vladimir Sherwood. Each side is decorated with a high relief plaque illustrating the exploits of the Grenadiers. The interior, now empty, once housed a set of bronze plaques listing 18 Grenadier officers and 542 soldiers who died at Plevna. An annual memorial service is held in front of the chapel on March 3 (the day of Bulgaria's liberation). The surrounding park is notorious as a gay cruising ground.[2]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.openmoscow.ru/plevna.php
  2. ↑ http://www.ntv.ru/novosti/111206/

Coordinates: 55°45′24″N 37°37′52″E / 55.7567°N 37.6312°E / 55.7567; 37.6312


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