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 will be engraved on stone or bronze plates and placed on the main thoroughfares of the cities. The best artists will be entrusted with the execution of the work. The unveiling of each of these memorial plates will be made a celebration with speeches, the text of the particular citation forming the theme. A musical program will also be a feature at these occasions.

It has also been decided to erect at convenient points of the capitals monuments to great personages distinguished in the Russian and world revolutions. These monuments are proposed to be made not of everlasting bronze or marble, but rather to take the form of plaster and terra-cotta statues for propaganda purposes. At the base of each statue will be placed a stone-slab with a short biography of and quotations from its subject.

The statues will be unveiled on Sundays and will be accompanied by speeches bearing on the significance of the individual in question, reading of selected passages from his works and a musical program. The same evening at one of the main city theatres will be given either a performance or a concert in honor of the person celebrated.

As a beginning it is proposed to erect statues of Radischey, Ryliev, Pestel, Belinsky, Dobroluibov, Tchernyshevsky and Nekrasov.

Mr. Sherwood, sculptor, will direct the work.