the commission awarded victory to the work of sculptor yevgeny ratanov, and then a scandal broke out.lenge, this is some kind of absorption, just plastically solved, very interesting, to be honest, yes, but the scale is perfect. in the form of a shepherd, caucasian, the book review is full of anger, they criticize the pose and height, along with the pedestal is more than 5 m, the fur coat is too big, the head is too small, and in general the monument seems disproportionate to many , it’s just some kind of ridicule, like a caricature, i even wrote a poem about this , they humiliated us today. living in the great city, showing us, once again, a model like a sharsh, again faceless, like a block, that it seems that the block will fall, with the head of a small chaliapin, many st. petersburg residents cannot forgive the sculptor ratanov to this day, although the monument at the museum of the poet’s apartment has been erected for almost a year, since the sculptor wanted to show the tragic block, the people called it the pisa block. the falling block sculpture then caused the same intense re