Running City Moscow 2015

Krymskaya nab., Muzeon Park  

55.735761, 37.608304 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

Monument to Stalin by sculptor Merkurov. Information plaque.
Paragraph in English about the largest monument.

Last three words of the second line

Detailed answer

Answer: geisha pink granite

geisha pink granite

Historical background

Merkurov became one of the first monument sculptors to receive regular commissions for statues of Lenin and Stalin. He created a large number of these monuments. He is the author of three of the most gigantic statues (a statue in Yerevan (49 metres with the pediment); one at the entrance to Moscow Canal, and one at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow). Art critics of his time reverently mentioned the Assyro-Babylonian grandeur of these behemoth monuments. The statues were all taken down during the Khrushchev Thaw.

Present in routes of categories Lion & Unicorn