- Its current name stems from a poem by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, published in 1833 and named ‘The Bronze Horseman’.
- 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.
- In the popular imagination, the statue’s imperious gesture is forever linked to Alexander Pushkin’s famous verse from his poem “The Bronze Horseman.”
- The Bronze Horseman photo The most famous monument to Tsar Peter the Great in St. Petersburg is located on the Senate Square.
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- The bronze horseman has a huge history, because it was built in honor of Peter I – the founder of Saint Petersburg.
- 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.
- Confusingly, he goes on to claim that Mickiewicz’s description of the Bronze Horseman ‘is taken from Ruban, as noted by Mickiewicz himself’.
- 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.