Recent correspondence regarding sculptor Antonio Sciortino refers to a monument by him in Kiev, Ukraine. Kiev’s current presence in the headlines led me to follow up this clue. I have found on the web information that Sciortino won a competition in 1913 for the design of a monument to Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko and a picture of the design on sale.

However, it is reported that the Sciortino project was overtaken by World War I and the Soviet take-over and replaced in 1939 by a monument designed by Russian sculptor Manizer that now gathers visitors and floral tributes in a park opposite Kiev University.

Does anyone know if a monument based on Sciortino’s 1913 design was ever built elsewhere?

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