The Staircase of Potemkine (Ukrainian Потьомкінськісхідці, Potemkinsky Skhidtsi , Russian Потемкинскаялестница), also called Richelieu Staircase is a monumental staircase of Odessa, in Ukraine. The staircase is regarded as the official entry of the city coming from the sea, and represents its most known symbol.
Being 12,5 meters wide with its end higher and 21,7 meters than its foot, it 142 meters is long and seems longer due to a Optical illusion . It is composed of 192 steps and 10 intermediate bearings, and conceived so that an observer placed in top of the steps sees only the stages, the steps being invisible, while an observer placed in bottom sees only the steps.
The staircase owes its fame with a scene of the film the Battleship Potemkine of Sergueï Eisenstein, which was turned there in 1925.
History
Odessa being located on a plate overhanging the coast, the port located downwards was accessible to the beginning from the XIXe century only by tortuous ways or rudimentary staircases out of wooden. using green sandstone coming from the Italian city of Trieste (then part of the Empire Austro-Hungarian). , for total costs of 800.000 roubles, and named Staircase Primorsky (Russian Приморский meaning towards the sea ).The staircase was restored in 1933, the sandstone replaced by pink granite in 1933 coming it river Buh and mitigate them covered with asphalt. Eight steps were withdrawn during the extension of the port in, increasing their number with 192. After the indépendence of the Ukraine in 1992, the original name was taken again, as for a great number of street names of Odessa.
Monument of the duke of Richelieu
In top of the steps is a statue of Richelieu, first mayor of the town of Odessa, represented vêtu of a Roman toga. It was conceived by the Russian sculptor Ivan Petrovich Martos (1754-1835), and was run bronzes some by Yefimov. It was inaugurated in 1826 and constitutes the first monument set up in the city.
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