The official unveiling of the panel
“The Kandievsky Uprising” (56 Moskovskaya Street) took place in 1973. It was assembled at the Moscow Combine of Monumental and Decorative-Applied Arts. The process was overseen by the capital’s artist Mikhail Trunkov, and the idea to create such a work was proposed by the second secretary of the regional committee of the CPSU, Georgy Myasnikov.
This building was chosen because it could accommodate an impressive canvas of 130 square meters.
The subject of the panel is historical—it tells the story of the uprising that took place in the Penza Governorate (in the villages of Kandievka, Chernogay, and others) from April 2 to 18, 1861. The peasants were outraged by the conditions of the announced decree on the abolition of serfdom. It was during this uprising that, for the first time in the country’s history, the red flag was raised.
According to other sources, the author of the mosaic panel “The Kandievsky Uprising” is the sculptor Gennady Belov, a native of Issa.
