At the beginning of XVIII century to the west of the Summer Garden was a vacant area, which was called the Great , and later Tsaritsynsky meadow. In the meadow held military parades.
In the years 1798-1801 there were monuments to generals Rumyantsev (architect VF Brenna) , and Alexander Suvorov (sculptor M. Kozlovsky ).In 1818, Rumyantsev Obelisk moved to Vasilevsky Island, but was confirmed in an area called the Field of Mars (like the Field of Mars in ancient Rome and Parizhe ).
In the years 1917-1919 in the Campus Martius were buried the victims of revolution and civil war. Here were buried in VA Volodarsky, MS Uritsky .Then, on the Champ de Mars, until 1933 , and buried the Soviet and Party workers. In the center of the Champs de Mars by the architect L. Rudnev was a monument to the \V tsentre Marsova polya po proektu arhitektora L. V. Rudneva byl ustanovlen pamyatnik \u0026laquo;Bortsam revolyutsii\u0026raquo; s vysechenymi nadpisyami A. V. Lunacharskogo.
V 1920\u0026mdash;1923 godah na Marsovom pole razbit park.At the same time lights were used , taken from the Lieutenant Schmidt Bridge during its reconstruction. In 1957, the center of the memorial is lit an eternal flame.
By 2006, the memorial has come in pretty bad condition : metal ornamental fences are removed, the lawn around the eternal flame burning partially trampled .
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