7 August
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1782—The Bronze Horseman (“Mednyi Vsadnik”) monument unveiled in Saint-Petersburg on Ploschad Dekabristov (Decembrists Square). ). The Bronze Horseman was a tribute by Catherine the Great to her predecessor on the Russian throne Peter I (the Great). The monument later became one of the city’s symbols after poet Alexander Pushkin called this sculpture in his immortal poem “Mednyi Vsadnik”. |
