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      🏛 The Bronze Horseman

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      Falconet's equestrian statue of Peter I on a rock pedestal, facing the Neva.

      The Bronze Horseman
      © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
      The Bronze Horseman
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      • The monument was unveiled on 7 (18) August 1782, on the centenary of Peter I's accession to the throne.
      • The statue is cast in bronze; it was Pushkin's poem that made it ‘copper’.
      • Falconet couldn't get Peter's head right, and it was modelled by his pupil Marie-Anne Collot.
      • The snake under the hooves was added as a third point of support for stability; it was modelled by Fyodor Gordeyev.
      • The pedestal is the “Thunder Stone”, a boulder from near Konnaya Lakhta, delivered to the square in 1770.
      • The inscription “To Peter the First from Catherine the Second” was devised by the empress, who struck the word “erected” from Falconet's version.
      • According to legend, during the casting in 1775 the pipe with bronze burst, and the master Yemelyan Khailov saved the lower part of the statue.

      Part of these routes

      • St Isaac’s, the Bronze Horseman and Bolshaya Morskaya
      • Galernaya and Konnogvardeysky
      • Petersburg in one day: the essentials
      • St Isaac's, Senate Square and the Moika: the long loop
      • Palace and English Embankments in lights
      • The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and the Colonnade
      • Senate Square, Galernaya and New Holland
      • The Admiralty, the Bronze Horseman and Annunciation Bridge

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