victims of the February Revolution. The funeral of the victims of the revolution on the field of Mars. The photo was forbidden to be published by the copyright holder

In the first years after the founding of St. Petersburg, a fair swamp was located here. Overgrown with bushes and trees, it separated the actual urban development, which was completed by the Postal Court approximately on the site of the modern Marble Palace, and the countryside, which in essence was the Summer Garden. Two rivers flowed from the swamp - Mya (Moika) and Krivusha (future Ekaterininsky Canal, also known as Griboedov Canal).

As the city grew, it became necessary to drain the territory - in the center of the capital of the empire, the swamp would look somewhat outdated. Two channels were dug: one of them later became known as the Swan Canal - it ran along the eastern border of the future Field of Mars, and the second - along the western one. It received the name Red - on one of the neighboring bridges. Thanks to the canals, the place began to dry up and turned into a meadow. Two canals have become part of a large project to drain the left bank of the Neva within the urban area. In total, six parallel channels were dug.

Gradually, the "Empty Meadow" (or "Big Meadow") began to be ennobled, used for hiking and horseback riding. And then divorces and parades of troops, festivities, celebrations in connection with military victories began to be held here, triumphal arches were built and fireworks were launched. Thus, for the next two hundred years, three main functions of this open space were determined: a place for walks, parades and folk holidays.

On the site of the third Summer Garden (Mikhailovsky Garden), the palace of Catherine I was built, and therefore the area also became known as the "Tsarina's meadow". An architectural ensemble gradually took shape around the meadow. The palaces of nobles along the Red Canal (along its western bank) were added to the Post Yard, and the remaining parts of the Summer Garden, which was about four times larger than the modern one, were located along the Moika.

An interesting document tells us that there were buildings on the meadow itself. Anna Ioannovna ordered to turn the meadow into a garden: “on the large meadow of which, opposite the Summer House, make a vegetable garden and clean it with decent trees according to the testimony of the architect Derastrelius, and he Derastrelius requires three thousand linden and maple trees for that cleaning ... [And since] on that the owner’s meadow has a structure, and specifically for the American deer, a menagerie, which is in the department of the chief jaeger of the meister’s board, and the workshop of the office of the Chancellery from the buildings of the hut and the Reiter stable, which the building for that garden must all be demolished.

In the second half of the 18th century, a new dominant appeared - this is the summer palace of Elizabeth Petrovna. A large wooden building by Rastrelli left with its galleries almost to the very Nevsky Prospekt. And the meadow itself finally turned into a garden or park and received the name "Promenade". True, the “Promenade” did not justify itself, and since 1752 they have been allowed there “to let the cows of Her Imperial Majesty, as well as those who will fall, for grazing.”

The turning point was 1777. The remains of the "Promenade" were washed away by the flood, and all subsequent years parades and training of troops were actively held there, during which all the vegetation was trampled down. A year later, the Red Canal was also covered up.

Since the second half of the 18th century, various theater buildings have been located on the meadow - for German, and later for Russian performances. But the main purpose of the site still became military parades. Especially under Paul I, who built the Mikhailovsky Castle on the site of the dilapidated Elizabethan palace and could watch from its windows the training of troops and the punishment of the wrongdoing military. It is not surprising that monuments to the military also appear on the meadow. The Rumyantsev obelisk was the first to be erected there. At first he was on the site of the monument to Suvorov, then moved to the Marble Palace, and then settled on Vasilyevsky Island, where we are all used to seeing him.

The monument to Suvorov took its place on the field in 1818. First, since 1801, it was located on the Moika. With the appearance of a monument in the form of the god Mars, a new name is also associated - the Field of Mars, which appears in everyday life in 1805. Around the same years, the barracks of the Pavlovsky regiment were built, the Saltykov house was rebuilt, Suvorovskaya Square was formed - and the architectural ensemble acquired a look similar to the modern one. True, the field itself did not have a blade of grass. Thousands of horses' hooves and soldier's heels knocked out a huge amount of dust on it, which sometimes made the inhabitants call it "Petersburg Sahara".

Since the second half of the 19th century, the tradition of folk festivals on the field has been renewed. Booths, carousels and folk theaters are being built there. Later, a swivel tower with a telescope was erected here to observe celestial bodies. Sports events were also held on the Champ de Mars. At one time, there was even a Skating Ring building here.

Constant military exercises were not very comfortable for the townspeople. Here is what one of the newspapers wrote about them in 1914: “Despite the fact that this field is located in the very center of the city, absolutely no one cares about keeping it in proper order. It is never cleaned, swept, or watered, and all the impurities that remain here after the daily exercises of horse and foot troops decompose, dry up and turn into dust. This dust, at the first breeze, rises in a column and covers not only the road along the Swan Canal, but the entire Summer Garden to the Fontanka ... Every morning, various military units (artillery, cavalry) come to the Field of Mars, which raise such dust that the public in the trams is in a hurry to close the windows and doors in the cars, and those walking in the Summer Garden are in a hurry to go home.

During the First World War, a supply of firewood was kept on the field. When the February Revolution happened, they decided to bury people who died during the days of the revolutionary events there. The place was chosen for a reason. It was planned to build a building for the future Constituent Assembly- the popularly elected parliament of the republic. It was before the future meeting that they decided to make a burial place for those who gave their lives for freedom.

Firewood from the Field of Mars was removed to the Palace. They will stay there until the October Revolution and get on historical photos. As for the funeral, they became a kind of emotional outburst, an event that overshadowed, perhaps, for the inhabitants of Petrograd, the revolution itself. The most detailed photo and even film reports show us thousands of people (about 600,000 in total), the entire ruling elite, gathered to honor the heroes. Crowds of people flocked from all sides, columns with banners and flags. Politicians made solemn speeches. The graves were dug out with dynamite in the frozen ground in advance. 138 people were buried here - those who were not taken by their relatives. This is approximately 10% of the total number of deaths in February - March 1917.

For any revolution, the cult of fallen heroes is very important. For the French, February and for the Bolsheviks as well. The practice of burying heroes continued after the October Revolution. And when the government moved to Moscow, the tradition of burying heroes closer to the main buildings of the country continued with urns and graves near the Kremlin wall. A monument to the victims of the revolution was also erected on the Champ de Mars. There were no funds or materials, and warehouses on the island of Salny Buyan were dismantled for its construction.

After 1918, V. Volodarsky, and Uritsky, and Nakhimson, and even the "Petrograd gavrosh" Kotya Mgebrov were buried there.

Through the efforts of the architects Rudnev and Fomin, the square acquired its usual appearance by the 1920s. The eternal flame appeared in 1957. This tradition was interrupted, but has now been restored.

Nowadays, the Champ de Mars is both a resting place for the townspeople and a must-see for couples getting married (I wonder if they wonder who is buried in this place, and if they even know that this is a cemetery), and in the last time - and our Hyde Park, which has an official place for rallies.

Looking back, we see a combination of the most unusual stories, the most striking manifestations of life, unusual for a place so familiar to every city dweller.

Field of Mars is one of the most prominent places in St. Petersburg. The history of this place can be called quite turbulent. And experts on anomalous phenomena assure that there is extremely negative energy here and sometimes the real devilry happens. Apparently, the ghosts of the buried revolutionaries are to blame for it ...

Metamorphoses of the Amusing Field

In the Petrine era, on the left bank of the Neva there was a Poteshnoye field. It was a vast wasteland where military parades and reviews were held, as well as fun festivities, accompanied by fireworks.

After the death of Peter I, a palace was built here for his widow, who inherited the throne, Empress Catherine I, and the Amusing Field began to be called Tsaritsyn Meadow. Catherine loved old legends and traditions. Once, an old thin woman was brought to her, who, among other things, told a story about the Tsaritsyn Meadow: “Here, mother, in this meadow, all the evil spirits of the water have been found for a long time. Like the full moon, they climb ashore. blue, mermaids are slippery, otherwise, it happens that the merman himself will crawl out in the moonlight to warm himself.

The empress did not seem to believe the narrator and ordered her to be driven out. But the very next day she left the palace on Tsaritsyn Meadow and never returned there again ...

When Alexander I came to power at the beginning of the 19th century, military reviews began to be held again in this place, and therefore the name Field of Mars was assigned to it (Mars is the Roman god of war, and then everything ancient Roman and ancient Greek was in fashion). But this era also ended, and the Field of Mars turned into an abandoned wasteland, which was only occasionally put in order ...

Victims of the revolution

The abandoned wasteland was remembered after the February Revolution. At first, they wanted to bury the victims of street fighting and skirmishes with honors on Palace Square. But this idea was opposed by the writer Maxim Gorky and a group of cultural figures. They proposed to arrange the burial of "heroes of the revolution" on the Field of Mars.

The solemn funeral took place on March 23, 1917. To the sounds of the Marseillaise, 180 coffins were lowered into the graves. Later, according to the project of the architect Lev Rudnev, a huge granite tombstone was built, which was a stepped quadrangle. Four wide passages led from the gravestone to the graves.

The tradition of burying those who died "for the cause of the revolution" on the Field of Mars was preserved after the October Revolution. In 1918, Moses Volodarsky, Moses Uritsky, Semyon Nakhimson, Rudolf Sievers, as well as four Latvian riflemen from the Tukums Socialist Regiment, who were killed by counter-revolutionaries, were buried here. From 1919 to 1920, the graves of nineteen heroes of the civil war were added to them. Burials continued until 1933.

In the early 1930s, the cemetery was landscaped, flower beds and lawns were planted, benches and lanterns were installed ... The last person to be buried on the Field of Mars was Ivan Gaza, secretary of the Leningrad City Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, according to the official version, "burned out at work." After that, the cemetery of the revolutionaries was declared a historical monument and burials stopped there. However, until 1944 it was called the Square of the Victims of the Revolution.

Meeting with the dead

In May 1936, the Leningrad worker Patrubkov went to the Field of Mars with the intention of drinking alone and in comfort the check he had taken with him. He sat down on a bench near one of the monuments. And suddenly, out of nowhere, a boy appeared. Patrubkov was surprised by his strange appearance: a swollen bluish face, sunken eyes ... In addition, a distinct smell of rot emanated from the child ...

The boy moved so close to the worker that he tried to push him away. Then the kid opened his mouth, which seemed unnaturally large, and grabbed Patrubkov’s palm… Before the proletarian had time to react, the “child” crumbled into a handful of dust, from which a terrible stench emanated… People ran to the wild scream of the worker.

A lover of drinking "in nature" was sent to a psychiatric hospital, deciding that he "caught" delirium tremens. Of course, no one believed his confused story. But a few days later, the unfortunate man died of blood poisoning.

wedding ghost

In 1957, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of October, the Eternal Flame was lit on the Field of Mars. In the 70s of the last century, a tradition developed - for the newlyweds to lay flowers there. But it is said that couples who observe this tradition tend to divorce soon...

There were eyewitnesses who said that sometimes some pale ragamuffin was attached to the wedding processions, appearing from nowhere and then disappearing to no one knows where ... Sometimes he later appeared in a dream to the women participating in the processions. And always then some misfortunes happened in their families: someone fell ill, died or was injured ... They say that the ragamuffin is the ghost of one of those buried on the Field of Mars ...

"Marsovo Pole", located in the center of St. Petersburg, has become a familiar place of rest for the townspeople. Few people think about the dark stories of this place.
In ancient times, according to the legends of the Karelian tribes, this place was considered cursed. According to ancient beliefs, all the forest evil spirits gathered here on full moon nights. Old-timers tried to bypass these neighborhoods.

On a sunny day, the townspeople rest on the grass of the Champ de Mars (my spring photo)
Centuries later, those who died during the February and October revolutions of 1917 were buried on the Field of Mars. So the cursed place was turned into a cemetery, where people who died a violent death were buried, whose souls did not find peace.

Rumors that “this place is not good” appeared as early as the 18th century during the reign of Catherine I, whose palace was located on the “Tsaritsyn Meadow” (as the Field of Mars was called in the 18th century).
The Empress loved to hear scary stories. One day, an old Chukhonian peasant woman was brought to her, who knew many terrible stories.
Chukhonka told the queen a lot of interesting things about the place where the palace is located:
“Here, mother, in this meadow, for a long time all the evil spirits of the water are found. As the full moon, so they climb ashore. The drowned are blue, the mermaids are slippery, and sometimes the merman himself will crawl out in the moonlight to warm himself.
In public, the queen laughed at the superstitious old woman, but she decided to leave the palace near the “cursed place”.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Tsaritsyn Meadow was called the Field of Mars. Then there was a monument to the commander Alexander Suvorov in the image of Mars (sculptor M.I. Kozlovsky). The first monument in Russia to an uncrowned person. Then the monument was moved to Trinity Square

Parade of Alexander II on the Field of Mars. Rice. M.A. Zichy
In the 19th century, the Field of Mars was a place for folk festivals. However, remembering the old tales, the townspeople tried not to appear here after dark.

Folk festivities on Maslenitsa in the 19th century. Field of Mars

View of the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood opens from the Champ de Mars...

...and to the Mikhailovsky Castle

Parade on October 6, 1831 on the Tsaritsyn Meadow. Rice. G.G. Chernetsov

Parade on October 6, 1831 (detail).
Russian classics are easy to recognize - Pushkin, Krylov, Zhukovsky, Gnedich

Parade on October 6, 1831 (detail)

On the eve of the revolution (1916). Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Tsarevich Alexei on the Field of Mars
In March 1917, the Field of Mars was chosen as the burial place for those killed in the February Revolution. Burial in a mass grave was carried out defiantly refusing religious rites, and without obtaining the consent of relatives. The cemetery, which appeared in the city center, immediately gained notoriety. The townspeople tried to avoid this place.
Despite the progressive revolutionary ideas, most of the townspeople reacted with superstition to such a mass burial - they said that the souls of the dead did not find peace and would take revenge on the living.
"Petropolis will turn into a necropolis"- whispered in the city.

It was said that people disappear without a trace at this place. In those days, passers-by told how at night from the side of the Field of Mars one could hear grave cold, a putrid smell and a strange inexplicable noise. There were stories that anyone who came to the Field of Mars at night would either disappear without a trace or go crazy.

The funeral of the victims of the revolution. Mass grave in the city center shocked many

The memorial complex "Fighters of the Revolution" was built in 1919. Architect L.V. Rudnev.
Esotericists note that the pyramid-shaped form of the memorial contributes to the accumulation of negative energy of the "cursed place"

Memorial to the "Victims of the Revolution" today

Field of Mars, 1920. Rice. Boris Kustodiev

Here is a panoramic view of the memorial

memorial pyramid

You can't scare kids with scary stories

The eternal flame on the Champ de Mars was lit in 1957

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part 2 ending, -
description of the location of the Champ de Mars
Field of Mars is the largest memorial and park complex in the center of St. Petersburg, covering an area of ​​almost nine hectares. A majestic panorama of a vast parterre square with a monument to the victims (now this is just a myth - why? Read more) February Revolution bounded on the southern and eastern sides by the Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens, and the northern side faces the Neva and Suvorov Square. The history of the Field of Mars dates back to the first years of the founding of St. Petersburg.

The oddities of the Field of Mars have been known for a long time, and in addition to the covens of witches, researchers also give another reason for the peculiarity of the Field of Mars. The fact is that the burials of the Bolsheviks (!!!, and not their victims - what a brotherhood) of 1917-1933 were made in a cemetery laid without church consecration and, figuratively speaking, on the blood of people who died during fratricidal clashes. Only this initially did not allow turning the graves into a place of eternal rest for the dead, which happened in the spring of 1942.
But back to the history of the place, at the beginning of the 18th century, the territory on which the Field of Mars is now located was a swampy land with trees and shrubs.
In 1711-1716, canals were dug around the space from the west of the Summer Garden to drain the territory - Lebyazhy and Red canals. The resulting rectangle between these channels, the Neva and the Moika began to be called the Big Meadow. It was used for military reviews, parades and holidays in honor of the victories in the Northern War. The festivities were often accompanied by festivities with fireworks, which were then called "funny lights". From them the Field began to be called Amusing.
Under Catherine I, the field began to be called the Tsaritsyn Meadow, since the place where the Mikhailovsky Castle now stands was then the Empress's Summer Palace. In the 1740s, they wanted to turn Tsaritsyn Meadow into a regular garden, M. G. Zemtsov drew up a corresponding project. Paths were laid in the meadow, bushes were planted. However, further work was stopped for various reasons, and military parades and parades were again held here.
In 1765-1785, the Marble Palace was built in the northern part of the meadow. During construction, the Red Canal was filled up. In 1784-1787, the Betsky house was built, and the Saltykov house was built nearby at about the same time.
In 1799, an obelisk in honor of P. A. Rumyantsev was opened in front of house number 3. In 1801, a monument to A. V. Suvorov was erected on the Tsaritsyn Meadow near the Moika River (sculptor M. I. Kozlovsky). In 1818, at the suggestion of K.I. Rossi, the monument was moved to Suvorovskaya Square, which was formed nearby. At the same time, the Rumyantsev obelisk was transferred to Vasilyevsky Island.
In 1805, the Tsaritsyn meadow was renamed the Field of Mars, after the ancient god of war - Mars. According to another version, the Field of Mars got its name from the monument to A.V. Suvorov, because the monument is quite unusual - the commander is depicted in the armor of the god of war Mars.
Soon the green meadow turned into a dusty parade ground. The dust raised by the boots of the soldiers was carried by the wind to the Summer and Mikhailovsky Gardens, and settled on the trees. By the middle of the 19th century, the Field of Mars was often called the "Petersburg Sahara" by the people.
There is a rumor that Emperor Paul I had a weakness for military parades and often held a review of troops on the Field of Mars. Once, as the legend says, Pavel was extremely dissatisfied with the way the Preobrazhensky regiment marched. The enraged emperor shouted to the negligent soldiers: “All around ... march! To Siberia! Not daring to disobey, the regiment turned around and, in full force, marched in formation towards the Moscow outpost, and from there outside the city, intending to fulfill the emperor’s order at any cost. Only in Novgorod did Paul's messengers manage to find the regiment, read out to him an order of pardon, and return the soldiers back to Petersburg.
In 1817-1821, to accommodate the Pavlovsky regiment, according to the project of V.P. Stasov, regimental barracks were built (Marsovo Pole, 1). In 1823-1827, the Adamini house was built (Marsovo Pole, 7). In 1844-1847, an office building of the Marble Palace was built from the northern part of the field (Dvortsovaya Embankment, 6).
In the second half of the 19th century, festivities were again organized on the Field of Mars. On Shrove Tuesday, booths, carousels, rolling hills were arranged here.
But in March 1917, on the Field of Mars, they decided to bury those who died during the February Revolution (180 nameless coffins with the victims of February - there are no names or surnames anywhere -doubts that these are Russian workers of the Republic of Ingushetia ... as they say now the PR action of the Provisional Government).
The truth then soon happened the burial of terrorists and the destroyers of Russia, the executioners of the Russian people, criminals and rapists, among whom there were no Russians as such, there was no stamping, the place was not consecrated and became a mystical Sotanian image no longer of St. Petersburg but of the so-called LENINGRAD !, a curse of a kind of city
It should be noted that these criminals, rapists, money-grubbers and murderers were buried as heroes (but of course they were not heroes of pain, but were murderers and criminals who arrived in St. Petersburg to rob and rape the population of St. Petersburg and Imperial Russia), and soon the Field of Mars turned into a place for a long time burial places of commissars killed by Russian avengers.
In 1918, the Field of Mars was renamed Revolution Square. Over the graves in 1919, according to the project of L.V. Rudnev, a monument was erected to the “Fighters of the Revolution”. To create it, granite blocks of the warehouse-wharf of Salny Buyan (an island at the mouth of the Pryazhka River) were used. 180 revolutionaries were buried. The funeral lasted all day, and each Bolshevik buried was saluted by the guns of the Peter and Paul Fortress. Later, Bolshevik fighters were buried on the Field of Mars civil war, prominent Soviet statesmen.
In 1923 a square was organized here.
In the summer of 1942, the Champ de Mars was completely covered with vegetable gardens, where vegetables were grown for the inhabitants of the besieged city.
and the graves were arbitrarily destroyed this spring, alas.   An artillery battery was also stationed here.
On January 27, 1944, guns were installed here, from which a salute was fired in honor of the lifting of the blockade of Leningrad.
In 1944, the square returned to its former name.
On November 6, 1957, the first eternal flame in the USSR was lit in the center of the monument to the Fighters of the Revolution. It was ignited by a torch lit in the open-hearth furnace of the Kirov plant. It was from this fire that Sotan's eternal flame was lit at the walls of the Moscow Kremlin and the victims of the blockade of the Piskarevsky cemetery (to the delight of the sotan). The family of director Herman lived at that time on the square
and Herman himself confirms everything that is written here and adds that there were attempts to bury the victims of the famine (arranged by Koba, who fiercely hated both the city itself and its Imperial generation, dooming them, this generation, who lived under the Republic of Ingushetia, to death) during the Blockade
Despite the significant area of ​​the Champ de Mars, which is comparable to the area of ​​the Summer Garden, it seems much smaller. The reason lies in the fact that the Field of Mars is a kind of large area, an open space with strict lines and a clear organization of components. On the Champ de Mars, everything looks very neat and reservedly solemn: green lawns, flower beds, paths.
Champ de Mars is a great place to relax, but it's more of an evening rest. In moments of scorching summer heat, this is not the best place for walking - there is nowhere to hide from the sun on the Champ de Mars. There are very few trees covering from the heat and noise of the city, therefore, being in any part of the Champ de Mars, you feel as well as possible that you are in the center of the city.
The Field of Mars, blown by the winds and scorched by the sun, is a place where you clearly feel like a small grain of sand in the huge wheel of the history of our people. This is that integral part of St. Petersburg, which carries the spirit of history and the continuity of traditions.
History of the Field of Mars
At the beginning of the 18th century, to the west of the Summer Garden, there was an undeveloped area, which was called "Amusing Field" or "Big", and later "Tsaritsyn Meadow". Military parades were held in the meadow. In 1798-1801, monuments were erected there to the commanders P. A. Rumyantsev (architect V. F. Brenna), and A. V. Suvorov (sculptor M. I. Kozlovsky). In 1818, the Rumyantsev obelisk was moved to Vasilyevsky Island, but the name Field of Mars was established behind the square (similar to the Field of Mars in ancient Rome and Paris). From 1918 to 1944 it was called the Square of Victims of the Revolution.
The planning and landscaping of the Field of Mars was carried out according to the project of the academician
I. A. Fomina.
The memorial complex in the center of the square was created by the architect L. V. Rudnev.
The memorial was also worked on by:
artists - V. M. Konashevich and N. A. Tyrsa,
text author — A. V. Lunacharsky
The memorial was opened on November 7, 1919.
Materials: pink and gray granite, forged metal.

Who is buried (there was no burial service and the place was not registered as a cemetery either ...) ???

Mass grave on the Field of Mars after the February Revolution
The first to be buried on the Field of Mars were those who died in the February Revolution (180 coffins, unknown persons).
Buried on the Field of Mars Petrograd workers (again, there are doubts whether they are workers - after all, there are no names and surnames!) who died during the Yaroslavl uprising on July 6-21, 1918, participants in the defense of Petrograd from the troops of General N. N. Yudenich.
as well as:
Moses Solomonovich Uritsky - the first head of the Petrograd Cheka (killed on August 30, 1918 by Leonid Kannegiser, a hero of the Russian white movement). The murder of Uritsky, along with the assassination attempt on V.I. Lenin, led to the beginning of the Red Terror!!!
V. Volodarsky (Moses Markovich Goldstein) - propagandist, commissar for the press, propaganda and agitation (killed on June 20, 1918 by a Socialist-Revolutionary on the way to a rally - which they did not share, one can only guess ...).
Several Latvian riflemen, including their commissar, comrade S. M. Nakhimson.
Seven victims of the attack on the Kuusinen Club on August 31, 1920, including two members of the Central Committee of the Finnish Communist Party, Jukka Rahja and Väino Jokinen.
Soviet military leader Rudolf Sievers (1892-1919), who died in battle.
young actor-agitator Kotya (Ivan Alexandrovich) Mgebrov-Chekan (1913-1922), who died under very strange circumstances and was declared a "hero of the revolution."
Mikhailov, Lev Mikhailovich (1872-1928) - Bolshevik, chairman of the first legal St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP (b).
Ivan Ivanovich Gaza (1894, St. Petersburg - 1933, Leningrad) - Soviet politician. Member of the RSDLP(b) since April 1917.
In 1920-1923, a park was laid out on the Square of the Victims of the Revolution. At the same time, lanterns taken from the Nikolaevsky Bridge, renamed the Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge (now the Blagoveshchensky Bridge), were used.
Until 1933, they continued to bury Soviet party workers.
It should be noted that in the summer of 1942 the Champ de Mars was completely covered with vegetable gardens, where vegetables were grown for the inhabitants of the besieged city. An artillery battery was also located here, and in the autumn of 1941 it was pitted with cracks of shelters from shelling and bombing, so it’s hardly appropriate to talk about the safety of the burials ... and it’s no longer correct to say where the remains disappeared ...
inscriptions
Text author: A. V. Lunacharsky (1875-1933), in the editorial and grammar of the author himself, comrade. Commissar Lunacharsky, as direct speech:
“Against wealth, power and knowledge for a handful, you waged war and fell with honor so that wealth, power and knowledge would become a common lot.
By the will of the tyrants, peoples tormented each other. You stood up in laboring Petersburg and were the first to start a war of all the oppressed against all oppressors, in order to kill the very seed of war.
1917-1918 inscribed in the annals of Russia great glory, mournful bright years, sowing your harvest will ripen, for all who inhabit the earth.
Not knowing the names of all the heroes of the struggle for freedom, who gave their blood, the human race honors the nameless. To all of them, this stone was placed in memory and honor for many years.
The one who died for a great cause is immortal, the people live forever who laid down his life for the people, worked, fought and died for the common good.
From the bottom of oppression, want and ignorance, you have risen a proletarian, gaining freedom and happiness for yourself. You will make all mankind happy and tear them out of slavery.
Not victims - heroes lie under this grave. Not grief, but envy gives birth to your fate in the hearts of all grateful descendants. In those terrible red days you lived gloriously and died beautifully.
The sons of St. Petersburg have now joined the host of the great heroes of revolts of various times who have passed away in the name of the heyday of life, the crowds of Jacobin fighters, 48 ​​the crowds of Communards.
Vladimir Osipovich Likhtenstadt-Mazin 1882-1919 died in battle. Viktor Nikolaevich Gagrin (1897-1919) died at the front. Nikandr Semyonovich Grigoriev 1890-1919 was killed in action.
Semyon Mikhailovich Nakhimson 1885-1918 was shot by the White Guards in Yaroslavl. Pyotr Adrianovich Solodukhin died in action in 1920.
Here are buried those who died in the days of the February Revolution and the leaders of the Great October Socialist Revolution, who fell in battle during the Civil War.
I. A. Rakhya 1887-1920, Yu. V. Sainio 1980-1920, V. E. Jokinen 1879-1920, F. Kettunen 1889-1920, E. Savolainen 1897-1920, K. Linkvist 1880-1920, Yu. T. Viitasaari 1891-1920, T. V. Hyurskymurto 1881-1920. Killed by Finns-White Guards 31 VIII 1920
V. Volodarsky 1891-1918 was killed by the right SRs. Semyon Petrovich Voskov 1888-1920 died at the front.
Konstantin Stepanovich Eremeev 1874-1931, Ivan Ivanovich Gaza 1894-1933, Dmitry Nikolaevich Avrov 1890-1922.
To the young artist-agitator Kota Mgebrov-Chekan 1913-1922.
Moses Solomonovich Uritsky 1873-1918 was killed by the Right Socialist-Revolutionaries. Grigory Vladimirovich Tsiperovich 1871-1932.
Red Latvian Riflemen Indrikis Daibus, Julius Zostyn, Karl Liepin, Emil Peterson who died during the suppression of the White Guard rebellion in Yaroslavl in July 1918.
Rakov A. S., Tavrin P. P., Kupshe A. I., Pekar V. A., Dorofeev, Kalinin, Sergeev died in battle with the White Guards on May 29, 1919.
Rudolf Fedorovich Sievers 1892-1918 died after the battle from wounds, Nikolai Gurevich Tolmachev 1895-1919 died in battle with the Whites.
Lev Mikhailovich Mikhailov-Politkus 1872-1928, Mikhail Mikhailovich Lashevich 1884-1928, Ivan Efimovich Kotlyakov 1885-1929.

In 1956, the Sotan sacrificial Eternal Flame was lit in the center of the memorial.
In 1965, from the fire on the Field of Mars, the torch of another Sotanian eternal flame was lit in Veliky Novgorod, and on May 8, 1967, an Eternal flame no less than Sotanian at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.
In the early 2000s, the metal decorative fences around the lawn were removed.
links:
1. To the fighters of the revolution, a monument:: Encyclopedia of St. Petersburg
2. Petersburg diary, edition of the government of St. Petersburg, No. 40 (150), 10/15/2007
3. Nakhimson TSB, Semyon Mikhailovich

I will cite here excerpts from the diary of A. N. Benois about how this idea of ​​burying the victims of the February Revolution on the Field of Mars came about. Once these passages were posted on my Fragments, but it’s not a sin to re-lay out, especially about this.

Monday, March 6/19

<...>And again, anxiety, because, according to rumors, they are going to bury the "victims of the revolution" on the area of ​​the Winter Palace, where in time it is planned to build a grandiose monument. In view of this monument, gentlemen architects have been busy. Here, too, there is a danger that the crowd of one hundred thousand, attracted by the funeral procession, under the influence of some naughty demagogues, would rush to the palace itself and at the same time to the Hermitage! Gorky, summoned urgently by me, agreed to go himself to the Soviet of Workers' Deputies to reason with the "comrades." He will offer them the square of the Kazan Cathedral, which has been marked by so many<раз>revolutionary uprisings and among which once there was a monument in the form of an obelisk. Something similar could be done now...<...>

<...>And this time, having appeared among us, he was broadcasting, but he was definitely saying things that were not relevant to the case. So, for example, indignant at the fact that the "victims" were going to be buried "in the middle of the city", he found that this was "unclean"! We asked him to go to S.R.D. (on the promised car Grzhebin) and again try to persuade the "grave diggers" (as Yaremich calls them) to look for another place than the foot of the Alexander Column. However, an hour later he returned from there with nothing and very embarrassed: he did not even manage to "get his word" at all! In general, it is believed that it will be difficult to achieve a re-decision on a question on which there was a unanimous vote (oh nightmare of collective decisions!) one thousand four hundred votes!<...>

<...>Evening meeting - secondary entrée<выступление (фр.)>"architectural clowns": Zhenya Schreter, Rudnitsky and their associates - all because of the ill-fated idea with the burial of "victims". They clung to these dead people like hungry in bags of flour, and are ready to gnaw the throat of those who would take their prey from them. On our part, Kolya Lansere was especially excited. Schroeter finally lost all self-control and flew out of the meeting, threatening that he would completely refuse to work (on the monument) and thereby set all the workers already contracted to dig graves against us! After they left, Fomin came up with another "brilliant" plan on how to avert trouble, but for now he keeps it a secret.<...>

<...>I found our commission in high spirits, caused by the victory that Fomina managed to win in the meeting of R. and S. Deputies (held at the Mikhailovsky Theater). In cooperation with Rudnev, who has come over to our side, our architectural fa presto<скорый на руку человек; букв.: делай быстро (ит.)>made huge paintings - projects of fantastic monuments to the "victims", however, not on the Winter Palace Square, but on the Field of Mars, and this made such an impression that at last the "comrades" gave up and decided that the burial would take place there. Thus, the stratage, which Fomin secretly prepared, was a complete success! And just then Chagall appeared, alarmed by the assignment entrusted to him to paint the banners that should appear in the funeral procession. I urged him (and others) not to get involved in this matter, because there is not enough time (the funeral is scheduled for the 16th), and in general such a task is beyond the power of "room" artists. However, Dobuzh<инский>and Narbut immediately dreamed of some kind of "sea of ​​red flags"<...>