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- Dekabristov (Decembrist's) Square
- 1768-82. Sculptor E.-M. Falconet
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- In |Senatskaya Square|Custom1|O:279| the first monument in our
- city was erected - that to Peter I, the founder of
- Petersburg. This monument, that was
- commemorated by Pushkin in his poem The
- Bronze Horseman, is one of the best samples of
- the world monumental sculpture, one of the
- symbols of Petersburg.
- The ceremony of the opening took place on
- August 7, 1782. On each side of the pedestal
- there is an inscription done in Russian and in
- Latin reading: ôTo Peter the First - Catherine the
- Secondö.
- The Bronze Horseman, a monument remarkable
- for its perfect composition and masterful
- workmanship, is an integral part of the ensemble
- of central Petersburg. The author himself
- interpreted the symbolic meaning of the rearing
- horseman. ôThe monument will be simple, - he
- wrote. - I shall limit myself to the statue of this
- hero, and I am treating him neither as a great
- marshal, nor as a victor, though he was both.
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