Monument to Taras Shevchenko
Baseline Rd and Heron Rd, Ottawa, ON K2C, Canada
Description:
The monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko in the capital of Canada is a bronze-granite monument depicting the poet sitting in a long cloak with a cape, with brushes and a palette in his hand, since Taras Shevchenko was also an artist. The monument is surrounded by three bas-reliefs with sculptures of its most famous characters: Gaidamaki, Katerina with a baby, Kobzar.
The height of the main sculpture is 3 meters. The modern monument was opened in June 2011 and is located in a park next to the Rideau Canal, which symbolically plays the role of the Dnieper.
The author of the composition is Canadian sculptor of Ukrainian origin Leo Mola (Leonid Grigorievich Molodozhanin).