23/11/20

North-Western Army monument in Ivangorod restored

The monument was preserved, being the only monument to the White soldiers in Russia in Soviet times. On the 100th anniversary of the North-Western Army in Ivangorod, on June 1, the renovated monument was unveiled and consecrated at the mass grave of White soldiers and civilian refugees from the St. Petersburg province.
In 2019, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the North-Western Army, General N.N. Yudenich (formerly the Northern Corps), and, accordingly, the 100th anniversary of the events of the civil war in North-West Russia, are celebrated. In Ivangorod in Petropavlovsk, the former Narva Znamensky Orthodox cemetery, there is a monument to the Soldiers of the North-Western Army and civilian refugees from St. Petersburg gubernia who died and died from a typhoid epidemic in 1919-1920.
The monument on the mass grave was opened in the period of the First Estonian Republic in 1936 on the initiative of the Orthodox inhabitants of Narva, among whom was the famous Russian writer Vasily Nikimofor-Volgin. It was he who addressed the people of Narva with a call to perpetuate the memory of those who died during the civil war, protecting Narva and its inhabitants, and was buried in this cemetery. To the dead and those who died of wounds, those who died of a pestilence (typhus epidemic), which broke out in Narva and Ivangorod in the spring of 1920, were added.
The monument suffered during the hostilities in 1944, but remained. On the initiative and with the financial participation of the Military Brotherhood of St. Michael the Archangel and the editorial staff of the journal of historical Russia "Mikhailov Day" (S.G. Zirin, Yamburg), the memorial educational center "White Business" (coordinator O.A.Shvetsov, St. Petersburg ), St. Petersburg Mitrofanievsky Union, as well as the descendants of white soldiers living in Russia and abroad, in April-May 2019, the monument was restored.