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Monument to the leader of the peasant movement in Podilla, Ustym Karmalyuk
Full name of the monument :
Monument to the leader of the peasant movement in Podilla, Ustym Karmalyuk
Region :
Khmelnytskyi region
Address of the monument :
Letychiv village
Status :
National significance
Monument installation year (s) (if available) :
1974 рік
Time classification according to the installation epoch :
Soviet period (1922-1991)
Artist(s) :
Znoba Valentyn, Shmulson Israel
sculptor, architect
Person/event, object the monument is dedicated to :
real person(s)
Gender :
male
Nationality :
Ukrainian
Social status :
working class
Size :
The height of the monument is almost 5 meters.
Components of the monument :
Monument, pedestal
Material :
mixed materials
Type of art composition :
one-figure composition
Artistic approach :
figurative art
Main text, additional text (if available) :
Yes
Ustym Karmalyuk
Language(s) of the text :
Ukrainian
Narrative commemorates :
Imperial era
The preservation state of the monument at the time of the research :
no data available
Institution responsible for maintenance :
Letychiv Regional Territorial Community
Institution’s website :
Free text that contains data valid for interpretation :
The theme of the struggle of the Ukrainian peasantry against serfdom and enslavement is one of the most popular in our culture. The monument to Ustym Karmalyuk in Letychev is dedicated to her.Ukrainian Robin Hood - this is what Ustym Karmalyuk was called, a fighter against lordly arbitrariness, a defender of the disadvantaged and offended. According to legend, Ustym was a peasant serf. For disobedience, the master sent him to the tsarist army for 25 years.After escaping from the regiment, Ustym Karmalyuk led the liberation movement in the Letichiv district. During 23 years of struggle with the Russian nobility, he was repeatedly sentenced to hard labor, but the hero always managed to escape. Because of this elusiveness, Karmalyuk was considered a character. According to belief, he was even killed as a sorcerer - shot with a silver button. Karmaluk's dead body was carried from village to village to intimidate the rebels. In the end, the rebel was buried in Letychev. Here, in 1974, on the initiative of the villagers, a monument was erected in honor of Ustym. The authors were the sculptor Valentyn Ivanovich Znoba and the architect Shmulson Izrael Lazarevych.
