Tombstone of Boleslaw Balzukevich, Ross cemetery in Vilnius, state 2013, photo autorzy karty, Public domain
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Detail of the tombstone of Boleslaw Balzukevich, Rossa cemetery in Vilnius, as of 2013, photo autorzy karty, Public domain
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ID: NGR-011279-P

Tombstone of Bolesław Bałzukiewicz

Vilnius | Lithuania

Rossa Cemetery in Vilnius

ID: NGR-011279-P

Tombstone of Bolesław Bałzukiewicz

Vilnius | Lithuania

The burial place marked by a rectangular stele in a concrete band at the headstone passing into a slab. On the front of the stele a circular plaster medallion, framed by a shaft, with a relief bust of a man. The figure facing 3/4 to the right, wearing a shirt with collar, in the lower right part an engraved signature (No. 1). Below this an engraved inscription. On the slab a metal plaque in the form of a coat of arms cartouche with a painted inscription (No. 2). A gravestone on a common granite and concrete base with the gravestone No. 003 - Eleonora Balzukiewicz.

Inscription:

1. Ś + P / PROF. RZEŹBY USB / BOLESŁAW / BAŁZUKIEWICZ / 1879-1935 //.
2. [Ś.] + [P.] / [-] / [-] / 18[79] - [1935] / [...]OF WYDZ S[Z][...] / USB [...] //.

Related persons:

Bolesław Bałzukiewicz

Time of origin:

1940-1994

Lokalizacja nagrobka:

Sector number 14n (Old Rossa) Tomb number 4

Dimensions:

123 x 60 x 188 cm

Additional dimensions:

medallion: 34, base: 5 x 308 x 216

Materials:

concrete/jewel concrete, sheet, grey magmatic rocks (syenite, granodiorite, grey granite and others)

Additional Information about materials:

gypsum

Ceator's signature:

L. [Ż.] //.

Creator:

Leonas Žuklys (rzeźbiarz; Litwa)

Additional information:

According to Wacław Wejtko's file, gravestone in the form of a wooden cross with a crucifix and a tin plate with an inscription: S + P / Bolesław / Balzukiewicz / Artysta Rzeźbiarz / Profesor Wydz. Sztuk Piękn. / USB in Vilnius / Died on 12 February 1935 / at the age of 56. //. Such a record is also confirmed by A. Śnieżko. The gravestone on a common granite-concrete base with the gravestone No. 003 - Eleonora Balzukiewicz. Documentation of the object KPD=AV-298/12 in Kultūros paveldo departamento prie Kultūros ministerijos direktoriau (Cultural Heritage Department at the Ministry of Culture).

State of preservation:

lichens, inscription partly obliterated

Comments on the state of preservation and visible restoration:

bronze relief stolen in 1994, replaced by a plaster cast in 1995

Bibliography:

„Cmentarz na Rossie w Wilnie, badania inwentaryzacyjne”, katalog on-line, opr. Anna Sylwia Czyż i Bartłomiej Gutowski, dostęp on-line http://cmentarznarossie.uksw.edu.pl/, nr 10269.
Śnieżko, A. „Rossa - miasto umarłych. Groby zasłużonych”, t. 1, Wrocław 1970, maszynopis w zbiorach PAU Kraków, 28.

Keywords:

gravestone, stele, headband

Date of documentation:

2013

Publikacja:

22.08.2022

Author of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, Aleksandra Nasiorowska, Mariola Sztorc

Development / approval of the documentation sheet:

Bartłomiej Gutowski, dr hab. Anna Sylwia Czyż, prof. ucz.

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