Brits break the last will of Charles Dickens

But the 200-year anniversary to be celebrated next year, the British finally gathered to pay tribute to the creator of "Posthumous Pickwick Papers" and "Adventures of Oliver Twist." The details – the correspondent of "Vesti FM" Peter Garin. The author of the immortal classics of English during his lifetime did not differ modestly, but after his death, bequeathed to dispense with the pompous and ornate monuments in epithets tombstone. Nearly one hundred and fifty years no one dared to break Britain's will to genius, but those who fought for the perpetuation of the writer in bronze, at last, defeated. Design of the monument has already been approved. His will set one of the main squares of Portsmouth – the city, where Dickens was born, though hardly lived. Author sculpture – sculptor Martin Jennings – portrayed the writer sitting next to a huge stack of books. In his work the artist was inspired by an old photograph, in which Dickens read the book daughters Mary and Katherine. According to Jennings, sculpture, he wanted to convey the idea that people who are at a high position, often can not afford much, because, for example, a pile of books next to which sits Dickens, may at any time for him to fall. Monument – a project of Portsmouth Dickens Society, which enjoys the support of the writer's grandson, Ian. For the casting of the statue, by the way, while missing about 100 thousand pounds, but a descendant of the classic is optimistic: "This sculpture perfectly conveys the energy, creativity and wit of the writer," – said in an interview with Ian Dickens The Guardian. Although the statue in Portsmouth will be the first statue sculpted by Charles Dickens in the UK, in the world, there are at least two on his monument. The first one in 1894, was installed by the Americans in the municipal park in Philadelphia. Another statue of Dickens, which appeared at about the same years, in Sydney's Centennial Park. In 1972, the monument was kidnapped by unknown vandals. Discover it was only 40 years later. Inauguration of the renovated monument took place in Australia earlier this year.