- By the way, in Russian language the Bronze Horseman is usually called the Copper Horseman, though it is made of bronze.
- The Bronze Horseman symbolizes “Tsar Peter, the city of St Petersburg, and the uncanny reach of autocracy over the lives of ordinary people.”
- Looking at this ten-meter monument, it immediately becomes clear to whom the Bronze Horseman monument is dedicated.
- Fifty years after the monument was built, Pushkin wrote the immortal masterpiece “The Bronze Horseman” in only 21 days, based on a story he heard by chance.
- The Bronze Horseman photo The most famous monument to Tsar Peter the Great in St. Petersburg is located on the Senate Square.
- The Bronze Horseman model was created by the French sculptor Etienne Falcone, who was recommended to Catherine II by the philosopher Denis Diderot.
- Though the Bronze Horseman located directly in the center of city, but exact address formally is located in the Admiralty Administrative District of St Petersburg.
- The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great – the founder of St. Petersburg immortalized in the poem of the same name by Aleksander...
- It was impossible to take it out from the town and the citizens were afraid that the Bronze Horseman could be ruined during one of the countless bombings.