T. G. Masaryk - Dobrovice, Czech Republic
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N 50° 22.170 E 014° 57.770
33U E 497357 N 5579715
A statue of first president of Czechoslovakia
Waymark Code: WMG1GV
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/01/2013
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. He originally wished to reform the Habsburg monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded.
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Description of the statue
The stone statue, life size, on a granite base approximately 1.4 meter high.
Under the statue on the pedestal located national emblem of the Czech Republic - two-tailed lion. A figure in formal dress, in the left hand holds a bundle of documents