- The poem “The Bronze Horseman” was written in the autumn of 1833 in Boldin after a trip to the Urals in Pugachev’s places.
- The Bronze Horseman – an impressive monument to the founder of St Petersburg, Peter the Great – is one of St Petersburg’s most famous monuments.
- The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great which was created by French sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet and has become one of the...
- This passage of the Bronze Horseman is the best expression I have found so far of the way I feel whenever I venture out into the middle of Petersburg – pure awe...
- The most famous statue of Peter the Great was immortalised as the Bronze Horseman in the epic poem by Alexander Pushkin.
- And, all night long, the poor madman, No matter where he turned his feet, Heard, in pursuit, the Bronze Horseman
- At full height, Illumined by the pale moonlight, With arm outflung, behind him riding See, the bronze horseman comes, bestriding The charger, clanging in his flight.
- John Dewey’s verse translation of Alexander Pushkin’s narrative poem The Bronze Horseman was shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Prize 1996/7...
- The Bronze Horseman is the most famous monument to Peter I, which has long been a symbol of our city.