- Confusingly, he goes on to claim that Mickiewicz’s description of the Bronze Horseman ‘is taken from Ruban, as noted by Mickiewicz himself’.
- The Bronze Horseman – a monument to Peter I on Senate Square in St. Petersburg – is one of the main symbols of the city on the Neva.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The unveiling took place on August 18, 1782. The monument is made of bronze. The bronze horseman weighs eight tons and is five meters high.
- Etienne Maurice Falcone's dream came true in "The Bronze Horseman", this is exactly the work that the artist dreamed of all his life.