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 Móric Benovský - Vrbové, Slovakia Posted by:  Rikitan
N 48° 37.273 E 017° 43.398
33U E 700685 N 5388929
Bronze statue of slovak, hungarian and polish nobleman, explorer, writer, king of Madagascar, military officer of Austrian, Polish, French and American armies - Moric Benovsky. At central square of his hometown Vrbové, Slovakia.
Waymark Code: WMJD4P
Location: Trnavský kraj, Slovakia
Date Posted: 11/02/2013
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Bronze statue of Moric Benovsky installed on spherical memorial in small town Vrbové, western Slovakia.
Memorial is 3 metres high, of which 2 metres high is concrete Earth globe with 1 metre high Benovsky sculpture on the top and 5.5 metres long bronze relief around it - depicts moments from Benovsky's adventorous life.
Scuptor Anton Garbik is the author of this artwork, introduced to public in October 2012.
Maurice Benyowsky, (Hungarian: Benyovszky Móric, Polish: Maurycy Beniowski, Slovak: Móric Beòovský) born in Vrbové, Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia) on 20 September 1746, died on 23 May 1786, Madagascar
- was an explorer, writer, ruler of a community in Madagascar, and military officer in the French, Polish, Austrian and American armies.
In his memoirs he described himself on several occasions as a "Hungarian and Polish nobleman".
Benyovszky was born and raised in Verbó (today Vrbové), Slovakia, in what was then the northern Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia).
Regardless of his nationality, he is a pride of three nations: Hungarian, Slovak and Polish.
His career began as an officer of the Habsburg army in the Seven Years' War during the reign of Empress Maria Theresia.
In 1768 he joined the Confederation of Bar, a Polish national movement against Russian intervention.
He was captured by the Russians, interned in Kazan, and later exiled in Kamchatka.
Subsequently, he escaped and returned to Europe via Macau and Madagascar.
In 1772 Benyovszky arrived in Paris where he met King Louis XV of France and was offered the opportunity to act on behalf of France to colonize Madagascar.
After establishing the settlement of Louisburg, in 1776 Benyovszky was elected by a group of local tribal chiefs as their Ampanjakabe (ruler).
In 1779 Benyovszky came to America, where he tried to obtain support for a proposal to use Madagascar as a base against the British in aid of the American War of Independence.
He died in 1786 while fighting with the French on Madagascar.
5.oktobra 2012 si mestecko Vrbové, nedaleko Trnavy zaujimavym sposobom pripomenulo svojho najslavnejsieho rodaka - Morica Benovskeho.
Na Namesti Slobody bol odhaleny pamatnik s jeho bronzovou sochou a reliefom, pripominajucim jeho dobrodruzny zivot.
Moric Benovsky, (20. september 1746, Vrbove – 23. maj 1786, Agoncy, osada Mauritania, Madagaskar) bol slovensky dobrodruh, cestovatel, objavitel, kolonizator, spisovatel, kral Madagaskaru, plukovnik francuzskej armady, velitel polskej armady a rakusky vojak.
Bol prvy Europan, ktory sa plavil v severnom Pacifiku a severnom Tichom oceane (dlho pred Jamesom Cookom a de La Perousom). Autor memoaroveho diela Pamati a cesty.
Pamatnik Matusa Morica Michala Frantiska Serafina Augusta Benovskeho (1746-1786) je vysoky viac ako tri metre, samotna zemegula z betonu je dvojmetrova a važi 2,7 tony.
Po jej obvode je 5,5 metra dlhy relief, do ktoreho sochar vsadil odkazy na najdolezitejsie momenty zivota tohto svetobeznika.
Na reliefe sa nachadza jeho erb, baobab s cernoskou a dietatom, medailon s Mariou Tereziou a Jozefom II., rastlinny motiv dzungle, George Washington,
s ktorym mal kontakty i jeho priatel Benjamin Franklin. Nechyba ani lod, delo ako odkaz, ze Benovsky bol vojakom, i krasna zena, ktorych bol obdivovatelom.
Samotna postava Benovskeho, ktorej predobrazom je herec Adamovic, je vysoka takmer meter.
Na zemeguli je kral Madagaskaru v poklaku, v jednej ruke ma dalekohlad a v druhej gulocku, ktorej uloha je tajomstvom.
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