On June 24, the celebration of thousand forty second base Viciebsk anniversary of the opening ceremony of the monument to Alexander Nevsky, his wife Viciebsk Princess Alexandra and their son, Vasily. At the Millennium Square in fifteen hours began theatrical, dedicated to this event.

People started to gather in advance, people hiding from the June heat in the shade of trees and waited for the opening celebrations.

Perhaps the most colorful figures before the opening of the monument to the Millennium Square became elderly Cossack with a gray beard and menacing. On a blue cowl that hung on the black Circassian clearly adorned with two white double-headed eagle. Together with Nevski this person, for me, a theatrical figure of the last century embodied a clear ideological meme "Russian world".

Determining the activity of the representatives of the Orthodox clergy were allocated, they walked in different directions in front of a closed white cloth monument, is not located at predetermined locations. Choir is situated on the side of the hotel "Viciebsk" and dressed in green vestments priests surrounded the semicircle, as a military guard in front of the monument site. Together with the priests involved in the cordon "people in civilian clothes", but the goals and objectives they seem to have been different.

Viciebsk regional and city authorities headed by Nikolai Sherstnev an event not to be late. After a theatrical performance about the reunion of Prince Alexander and his wife and son, they, along with the authors of the monument sculptor Alexander Gvozdikov, Ivan Kazak and Evgeny Kolchev unveiled a monument pulling the cloth, which deftly slid a monument to the ground.

Rounded up to the event the audience, which consisted mostly of the female element, she clapped her hands together. Signs of discontent, as you might expect, no one showed. On completion of the priests consecrated the monument with holy water.

Everything happened as it should be, that is, in the best tradition of the post-Soviet reality, are not burdened with the needs of the historical compliance of national expediency and moral responsibility...

S. Horki