Melua has provided funds for the establishment of the monument (J.S.Co. Diplomat Thomas Bertelman and Professor Arkady Melua were initiators of the creation of the monument (1989). It was dedicated in 1991 to mark the 90th anniversary of the first Nobel Prize presentation.
The Monument to Alfred Nobel in Saint Petersburg is located along the Bolshaya Nevka River on Petrogradskaya Embankment. He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. Nobel was surrounded by his paid servants at the time of his death who didn't speak his native tongue so he wrote, "how sad it is to be without a friend who could whisper a consoling word and would one day gently close one's eyes." He had left most of his wealth in trust, unbeknownst to his family, in order to fund the Nobel Prize awards. On 10 December 1896, he suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed to where he could speak only his native tongue. Nobel was accused of high treason against France for selling Ballistite to Italy, so he moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy, in 1891. RelationshipsĪlfred Nobel's death mask, at Björkborn, Nobel's residence in Karlskoga, Sweden The first three of these prizes are for eminence in physical science, in chemistry and in medical science or physiology the fourth is for the most remarkable literary work and the fifth is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international brother/sisterhood, in the reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace. He died of a stroke on Decemat San Remo, Italy. Then on Novemat the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death (to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality). The Prizesįrom the manufacture of dynamite and other explosives, and from the exploitation of the Baku oil-fields, in the development of which he and his brothers, Ludvig and Robert Hjalmar (1829-1896), took a leading part, he gained an immense fortune. Some thirteen years later Nobel produced ballistite, one of the earliest of the nitroglycerin smokeless gunpowders. Blasting gelatin, as it was called, was patented in 1876, and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate, wood-pulp and various other substances. He next combined nitroglycerin with another high explosive, gun-cotton, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a still more powerful explosive than dynamite. Nobel found that when nitroglycerin was incorporated with an absorbent, inert substance like kieselguhr ( diatomaceous earth) it became safer and more convenient to manipulate, and this mixture he patented in 1867 as dynamite.
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