🏛 Triumphal Arch on Kutuzovsky

Bove's white-stone arch with the chariot of Glory, put up in memory of the victory of 1812.

The arch was built in 1829–1834 to a design by Osip Bove at Tverskaya Gate, where Belorussky Station now stands.
A bronze plate and a handful of silver roubles of 1829 were placed in the foundation "for luck".
The sculptures, to Bove's drawings, were made by Ivan Vitali and Ivan Timofeev; the columns and statues are cast iron.
The inscription on the attic was personally approved by Nicholas I; the same text is written in Latin on the other side.
In 1899 Moscow's first electric tram passed under the arch.
In 1936 the arch was dismantled, and in 1966–1968 a copy of it, designed by Vladimir Libson, was put up on Kutuzovsky Prospekt.

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