Russian Monument of San Stefano
Yeşilköy, Turkey
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Built between 1895 and 1898 in the village of San Stefano (now Yeşilköy, Istanbul), the Russian Monument was a Russian Revival mausoleum and chapel erected by the Russian Empire to commemorate soldiers who fell in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878. The structure served as both a memorial and place of Orthodox worship. In 1914, as the Ottoman Empire entered World War I and declared jihad against Russia, Ismail Enver Pasha ordered its demolition—an event memorably documented by filmmaker Fuat Uzkınay in what became the oldest known Turkish-made film.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- cautionary memorial, Eastern Orthodox church building
- Place
- Yeşilköy, Turkey
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