“This mural will become an icon”: Work on a unique and large-scale image of Saint Tsar Nicholas II has been completed in Yekaterinburgtranslated

A new mural in honor of Saint Tsar Nicholas II is being called a cure for historical amnesia. The SPAS TV channel released a large report on the completion of work on a unique image dedicated to the last Emperor of Russia. The author of the story is Alexander Egortsev.

The mural is not only a portrait of the Emperor in the ceremonial officer's uniform of a colonel, but also many details and scenes, “described with mathematical precision.” Compositionally, it is built in the image of an icon with stamps, but instead of scenes from the life of the saint, it depicts the real achievements of pre-revolutionary Russia.

– A very famous image where the Emperor is in the ceremonial officer’s uniform of a colonel - this is a stern image, he is smart and concentrated. Whether you realize it or not, a saint is looking at you. This is the center. But simply portraying the Emperor is probably not enough. “I am very glad that the authors of the mural idea went further,” said Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy in an interview with the SPAS TV channel.

Moving from the ground up, the viewer sees the key achievements of the era of Nicholas II. The composition is based on the development of railways and industrialization: rails, sleepers, a steam locomotive emerging from a mountain tunnel, a factory building...