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      🏛 Shemyakin's Sphinxes — Monument to the Victims of Political Repression

      Воскресенская наб., напротив «Крестов»

      Two bronze sphinxes by the descent to the Neva: on one side women's faces, on the other skulls, turned toward Kresty.

      Shemyakin's Sphinxes — Monument to the Victims of Political Repression
      © Vitold Muratov · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The memorial was unveiled on 28 April 1995; the sphinxes were created by Mikhail Shemyakin.
      • The sphinxes' faces are divided in half: young women's profiles face the residential buildings, skulls face Kresty.
      • Between the sphinxes is a granite cross with a prison window and a crown of barbed wire.
      • On the pedestals are plaques with texts by writers and dissidents about the repressions.
      • From 1923 to 2014 the embankment was called Robespierre Embankment.

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      • Voskresenskaya Embankment: Akhmatova and the Sphinxes

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