St Petersburg in winter
Decembrist's Square. The Statue of Peter the Great (The "Bronze Horseman")
The Bronze Horseman is an impressive monument to the founder of St Petersburg, Peter the Great. The monument was built by order of the Empress Catherine the Great as a tribute to her famous predecessor on the Russian throne, Peter the Great. Being a German princess by birth, she was eager to establish a line of continuity with the earlier Russian monarchs. For that reason an inscription on the monument reads in Latin and Russian: Petro Primo Catharina Secunda - To Peter the First from Catherine the Second.
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