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- The Bronze Horseman model was created by the French sculptor Etienne Falcone, who was recommended to Catherine II by the philosopher Denis Diderot.
- There is a legend from the 19th century that, as long as the Bronze Horseman stands on Senate Square, St Petersburg will never fall to an enemy.
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- Confusingly, he goes on to claim that Mickiewicz’s description of the Bronze Horseman ‘is taken from Ruban, as noted by Mickiewicz himself’.
- The poem “The Bronze Horseman” was written in the autumn of 1833 in Boldin after a trip to the Urals in Pugachev’s places.
- One of the most popular places to see in St. Petersburg, the Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great on horseback.
- A 19th-century legend states that while the Bronze Horseman stands in the middle of Saint Petersburg, enemy forces would not be able to conquer the city.
- Regarded as one of Pushkin’s most accomplished works, The Bronze Horseman has had a marked influence on Russian literature.