Vucic in Gruevski's “trace”: Car Dusan's giant September 21m high leaves in four trucks from Russia

One of these is that of Car Dusan, a member of the sope Stefan Nemanja, who conquered Albanian and Greek territories in the XIV century. Russian portal Sputnik has published a long coverage of Stefan Namanja's September construction work by a Russian sculpture, which is also being made ready for September of Serbian King Karadjordjevic.

Stefan's September bronze was made in Solnechnogorsk a town about 75km from Moscow, which will soon be located at Sava Square in Belgrade, where its financing has also been undertaken by the Open Society Foundation in Serbia.

The famous Russian sculptor Alexander Rukavesnikov has completed almost all works, so four trucks with parts of the monument are already travelling to Serbia.

However, the largest fifth of the monument is still in its studio, and they expect it to be sent in order.

The huge monument, made of bronze, was cut into pieces to make transportation easier to transport to Serbia, where it will be re-edied, polished and skated.

“What you now see is not its final view,” said Rukavisnikov, while adding that it would take another three months for final work, which envisions transporting the remaining parts to Belgrade and setting up a monument in front of the old train station in the Serbian capital.

This September makes up the largest monument in Serbia, 24m long, which weighs 68 tonnes.

Before Stefan, he worked on a sculpture with similar dimensions just for Sparta's stadium. He is the famous bronze gladiator today who is stationed near the northern stage of the Moscow stadium.

It is far more important that he be the best, not only in Serbia, but also in the world. I would like it to have an impact on attitude towards Serbs, because people who visit Belgrade will see this work and be affected. I would like it to be one of the symbols of Belgrade, such as the Temple of St. Sava”,thexon Rukavesnikov.

Rukavinikov is the third generation of sculptors in his family. Car Dusan his first work by a large foreign historical figure.

The author began working at the monument after winning an international competition in Serbia. As he says, he did not want it to be a classic monument, where “only one person stands in a pedestal” and it was important for him to adjust to urbanism and the spirit of Belgrade as a modern-changer “city, which he visited several times.

“Sic imagined, Stefan Nemanja's figure relies on the symbol of citizenship with one leg of the tip of his brother Sava's scepter, (which Stefan appointed to the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, after he expelled all the clergy of the business church). We assume he also had such a scepter, but he was not preserved. It's not a copy of the Sava scepter, but it looks like it, “explained Rukavishnikov.

On the outside, the two most important heritages of Stefan Nemanja” are indicated by the Studenica monastery in central Serbia and that Hilandari on Mount Athos in Greece.

As Sputnik suggests, the Russian sculptor before beginning the work of the monument is “trained” by Serbian Orthodox Church monks.

If everything goes according to plan, workers and installations from Russia must arrive in Belgrade on August 10th, while Rukavishnikov himself will join them in a month and a half to two, which will oversee the establishment of the monument.

In order for such a high sculpture to be stable, there will be strong steel construction. About three metres of the monument will be underground, and 21m above the ground.

Asked whether he would like to make a monument to another Serbian person from Serbian history, Rukawisnikov said he would gladly compete in the upcoming competition for King Aleksandar Karadjordjevic's monument in Belgrade, but that he still does not know whether the contest would be “open or closed”.