Abstract
The article examines the commemorative practices of residents of the Zlatoust district of the Ufa province, aimed at perpetuating the memory of Emperor Alexander II. The stages of the commemorative process are highlight-ed: identification of initiators and formulation of motives for the monument's installation, formation of a Committee, collection of donations, construction of the monument, and its opening. In 1881, former craftsmen of the Zlatoust factory initiated the installation of a monument to the deceased monarch. The monument was an expression of grati-tude for the Great reforms, namely the abolition of serfdom and compulsory labor in factories. The process of in-stalling the monument took ten years, which was caused by the lack of experience of farmers in implementing such memorial projects, ambitious plans, high cost of the project, the lack of large donors and orientation to local commu-nities within the County with timid attempts to reach the level of the province. Functionally, the monument became the center of commemorative practices, repeated actions of commemoration of the deceased Emperor and broadcast-ing the image of the monarch with the inclusion of regional specifics. The installation of the monument to the Em-peror in Zlatoust served as an example for other cities: copies of the monument were installed in Yekaterinburg, in the village of Sorochinsky in the Buzuluk district of the Samara province, and there were plans to install the monu-ment at the Miass plant. The monument to Alexander II in Zlatoust was demolished shortly after the establishment of Soviet power in the city in the summer of 1919. Studying the memorialization of Alexander II in pre-revolutionary Russia, determining the geographical and ethnic boundaries of the area of monuments, as well as interpreting the symbolic content of «places of memory», is useful for studying the process of forming national identity.
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