Now we cannot say for sure whether the words quoted by the correspondents in Pravda are realistic. Did Zoe really agitate the Soviet people to fight and predict the future defeat for the fascist invaders? We don’t know this, one thing is clear: even if there were no fearless words, the feat of a young girl can certainly be called heroic, patriotic and courageous.
Monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskoy in Moscow
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya is an 18-year-old Moscow schoolgirl, a Komsomol member. She was born in the Tambov region, but then the family moved to Moscow. Now her body rests in the Novodevichy cemetery.
The largest part of Zoe’s life is connected with Moscow, and in the Moscow region she suffered a tragic death. Maybe that is why this city has the largest number of memorable places. Here, on Zoe and Alexander Kosmodemyanskikh streets, there is school number 201, in which the girl studied. Here, going into the garden near the school, we can see what the hand of a brave Moscow schoolgirl touched. Here is one of the monuments to the girl.
In Moscow, at the Novodevichy cemetery, going up to the girl’s grave, we can feel her fighting spirit, captured in a tombstone.
“I’m not afraid to die, comrades! It’s happiness to die for your people! ”
The words taken for the title belong to Zoya Kosmodemyanskoy. We can say that they were the last for her, because literally a couple of moments later the German executioner knocked out a wooden box from under the feet of the tormented girl, and she silently hung in a noose.
Who is she, a hero girl? First of all, she is a daughter and sister, and then a Komsomol member, a Red Army soldier of a partisan unit, an unusually courageous girl. Zoya is the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War at the cost of her own life.
Zoya is a symbol of heroism, which inspired Soviet youth to fight against the fascist invaders.
Fortunately, the girl’s feat was not forgotten after the victory. Commemorative monuments were erected in many cities. Schools, libraries, streets were named after her.
The most realistic in terms of location can be called a monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskoy located in the village of Petrishchevo.
The feat is not forgotten: descendants remember it
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya in Petrishchevo was not built by chance. It was here that the Komsomol heroically, partisan Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya parted heroically with her life. It happened on November 29, 1941 in the center of the village, at the crossroads. The girl’s mutilated body hung on the gallows for three days (and according to other sources a whole month).
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya can be seen not only at the site of her feat. Moscow, Kiev, Tambov, St. Petersburg, Kharkov, Oster, the village of Panteleymovka, Saki, Komsomolsk, Yerevan, Donetsk, Sumy - all these settlements have perpetuated the heroism of the heroine, Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Anatolyevna, in stone (monuments, busts, obelisks, memorial tablets , plaques).
Perhaps the most famous is the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya on the Minsk highway. Here, at the 86th kilometer, tourists make their first stop, who come to see the place of death of the Soviet heroine Zoe.
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya on the Minsk highway is interesting not only because of its proximity to the village of Petrishchevo, but also because you won’t miss it, going to the museum named after this girl.
Over the Minsk flying highway ...
The poet Nikolai Dmitriev mentioned the monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, located on the Minsk highway, in his poem:
She called herself Tanya.
Not knowing that in proud glory
Unbroken, bronze will rise
Above Minsk flying highway.
On the 86th kilometer of the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region, on a high pedestal among the spreading trees, a thin mill of a girl stands out.
By the structure of the body, it is noticeable that the girl is quite young, but if you look closely at the face, it becomes clear that she is serious for years. Frowning eyebrows, a proudly thrown head and hands tied behind the back - this is what the sculptors V. A. Fedorov, O. A. Ikonnikov and the architect A. Kaminsky saw the Soviet heroine.
The monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was erected in 1957, a year after the opening of the Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Museum in the village of Petrishchevo. The museum is located in a house where a girl who called herself Tanya made the last step to infinity through death.
The exposition is divided into seven halls. However, a tour of the museum begins with an acquaintance with the sculpture of M. G. Manizer - “Zoe”. Before us is a girl with short cropped hair. She courageously and stubbornly looks forward, and her lips are tightly compressed ... Next to the sculpture is a tablet on which Zoey’s last words are written: “It’s happiness to die for your people.”