Monument to A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

The monument to the writer-Decembrist A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky can be seen in Adler, in Sochi, in a park named after Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. The monument was erected in 1957, on the 120th anniversary of the death of Bestuzhev-Marlinsky in the battle with the mountaineers. The sculptor of the monument is S.M. Tretyakov.

A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky received 20 years of hard labor for participation in the Decembrist uprising, in 1829 he was appointed a private to the Caucasus, in the active army. It was in the Caucasus, under the pseudonym Marlinsky, he created such works as "Frigate "Hope", "Ammalat-Bek", "Mulla-Nur" and others.

The monument to Bestuzhev-Marlinsky in Adler is an obelisk in the form of a pyramid of irregular shape. On one side of the obelisk there is a bronze bas-relief of the Decembrist writer, as well as an image of a book and a pen lying on fetters. Below, on the metal board, above the name, patronymic, surname and years of life of Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, you can see lines from the poem by A.S. Pushkin "To Chaadaev": "And on the ruins of autocracy will write our names!".