|
Two-Headed Eagle Reclaims Old Perch |
|
Written by The Moscow Times
|
|
Friday, 09 July 1999 11:00 |
|
Two-Headed Eagle Reclaims Old Perch "As legislators vowed Friday not to remove the Soviet hammer and sickle from the State Duma building, the two-headed eagle of the Romanov dynasty -- albeit a plastic economy model -- reclaimed its pre-revolutionary perch at the tsars' 16th-century summer estate. A two-meter hard-plastic golden eagle, based on a crest smashed 66 years ago, was hoisted to the top of the bell-tower of the white-brick gates of Kolomenskaya, the park and museum on the banks of the Moskva river in southern Moscow. It was the first reinstallation of a tsarist crest on a building anywhere in Russia since the 1917 revolution, according to Kolomenskaya museum curator Vladimir Suzdalev. A similar double-headed eagle now appears on Russian coins and in the Russian state seal. "All these cryptograms of Trotsky's should disappear," Suzdalev said, referring to Soviet emblems. "We need to return to our own traditional symbols."
|