The Bremen Town Musicians are the favorite heroes of the good old fairy tale: funny, courageous, sympathetic and real friends to all destitute and in love. Any country would be honored to be the birthplace of such literary heroes.
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Perhaps their homeland is somewhere in Russia? For example, in Khabarovsk? Indeed, it is in this wonderful city on the Amur that there is a beautiful sculptural composition based on images of heroes from the long-time popular animated film "The Bremen Town Musicians" (1969) and "Following the Tracks of the Bremen Town Musicians" (1973). Here the sultry Atamansha is surrounded by Coward, Dunce and Experienced, Troubadour sings romantic songs and gives a wreath to his beloved Princess, and the Cat, Dog and Rooster accompany the singing rock and roll composition Oslo. Although it is strange - why suddenly Khabarovsk?
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With the same success, it could be the wonderful Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. Since 2007, the composition of the sculptor Andrei Kasatkin has been placed on the square in front of the May Day Culture House. And since then, three times a day, the cry of the Rooster and the melody from the cartoon remind the townspeople of the presence of a company of cheerful musicians forever settled here. Although the heroes for the Siberian city are too lightly dressed. Most likely, their homeland is where it is slightly warmer than in Siberia.
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Good. If not Khabarovsk, not Krasnoyarsk, then maybe in Sochi? There, too, the sculpture "Bremen Town Musicians", located on the square of Arts opposite the art museum, feels great. True, for some reason Troubadour is absent there. But he is in the sculptural composition of the same author Hakob Khalafyan, but in Lipetsk.
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In this case, perhaps it is Lipetsk that dares to claim the role of the city-homeland of the "Bremen Town Musicians" - why not? A brutal composition created in a real forge from a black metal water pipe and located near the Children's City Hospital, as if speaks of both resistance and plasticity that are not amenable to corrosion and changing the characters of fairy-tale characters. Very symbolic composition.
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But still
Of course, the birthplace of the old fairy tale beloved by all is Germany. It was there that its creators the Grimm brothers lived. And it was there that they settled their cheerful, good-natured characters: not far from the city of Bremen, in the Bremen forest.
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There is a belief that the hut still stands in the Bremen forest, from which, in ancient times, wandering musicians expelled the bandits terrorizing the city of Bremen and its surroundings. In which they still live: the immortal Donkey, Rooster, Dog and Cat.
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As for the monument to the heroes of the fairy tale, such - very, very diverse - are in many countries: Germany - in Bremen and Zulpich, Erfurt and Fürth and Leipzig; in Latvia - in Riga; in Russia - in Sochi, Lipetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, St. Petersburg; in Japan, in Kawaguchi-ko.
