- The Bronze Horseman is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 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.
- The depiction of the monument in the poem struck a chord with St Petersburg’s citizens, who began referring to it as ‘The Bronze Horseman’.
- The Bronze Horseman is surrounded by famous attractions such as the buildings of the Senate and Synod, the Admiralty, and St. Isaac's Cathedral.
- 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.
- The Bronze Horseman symbolizes “Tsar Peter, the city of St Petersburg, and the uncanny reach of autocracy over the lives of ordinary people.”
- 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.
- 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.
- The Bronze Horseman stands on an enormous boulder that was originally buried in earth at Lakhta, some 10 km away, as the crow flies.