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Rising 38 metres in concrete and steel, this 1975 monument by sculptor Kazimierz Karpiński marks Park na Zdrowiu, where revolutionaries executed after the 1905-1907 uprising against Tsarist rule were buried. It replaced an earlier 1923 memorial column that Nazi occupiers destroyed in 1939. A 2005-2006 restoration removed later Soviet-era additions unrelated to the original event.
Sculptor Kazimierz Karpiński's design followed two public competitions, the first announced in 1967 and a second in 1970, before the monument was unveiled on 22 June 1975. Its base carries a quatrain from Władysław Broniewski's poem "Pięćdziesięciu," cut directly into the concrete. The site was a cemetery before it became a park: Tsarist authorities buried revolutionaries executed here after the failed 1905-1907 uprising against Russian rule. An earlier memorial on the same spot, a seven-metre concrete column topped with a cross raised in 1923, was pulled down by German occupiers in 1939. A 2005-2006 restoration, carried out with Karpiński's consent, stripped away armed soldier figures and dates that had been added later and had nothing to do with the 1905 revolution.
What you see
A jagged tower of raw concrete rises from a granite platform, built from 144 separate cast elements stacked into an ascending, angular silhouette above the park.
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