Eternal flame, Field of Mars, St Petersburg
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Eternal flame, Field of Mars, St Petersburg
St. Petersburg was founded in the early 1700s after Peter the Great captured what was a Swedish outpost on the Neva River, making the city Russia's capital and a window on the West. The Field of Mars was the setting for Tsarist military parades
and drills for regiments of imperial guards and, after 1917, used as a burial site for 'Heroes of the Revolution'. The eternal flame was lit in 1957, in memory of the people of St Petersburg who died during war or revolution.
Motherland
December 2004
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 17.9 x 22.8 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0072
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 191 +3 +0 +0 +0 191.tif (1) 19:08:28
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 191 +3 +0 +0 +0 191.tif (1) 19:08:28
