- We have many monuments to Peter I but the Bronze Horseman is unique. The idea of erecting a monument to Peter I belonged to Catherine II.
- Confusingly, he goes on to claim that Mickiewicz’s description of the Bronze Horseman ‘is taken from Ruban, as noted by Mickiewicz himself’.
- It took 12 years, from 1770 to 1782, to create the Bronze Horseman, including pedestal, horse and rider.
- Over the next eight years, the statue was cast in bronze. The name "Bronze Horseman" is an artistic device of Pushkin, in fact the figure is bronze.
- On his swift horse, that loomed on high; And, all night long, the poor madman, No matter where he turned his feet, Heard, in pursuit, the Bronze Horseman
- Monument dedicated to the founder of the city, Peter the Great, located on Senate Square. The Bronze Horseman appeared at the request of Empress Catherine II.
- 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...
- The grandiose «Bronze Horseman» - the monument to the founder of the city, Peter I towers above the Senate Square like a silent custodian of the city.
- It received its name, and with it wide popularity, after the publication of Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman", although in fact it was cast from bronze.