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Bronze Horseman
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monument for Peter I. at the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg
Key facts
- Artist
- Étienne Maurice Falconet
- Year
- 1768–1782
- Type
- Equestrian statue
- Location
- St. Petersburg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monumental sculpture
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Saint Petersburg
- Genre
- public art
- Depicts
- horse
- Movement
- Rococo
- Material used
- bronze
- Creator
- Étienne Maurice Falconet
- Location
- Senate Square
- Image
- 00 2061 Equestrian statue of Peter the Great - Constitutional Court (St. Petersburg).jpg
- Height
- 10.4
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- Commons category
- The Bronze Horseman (Saint Petersburg)
- inception
- 1768-00-00
- native label
- Медный всадник
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bronze Horseman (Russian: Медный всадник, romanized: Medny vsadnik, lit. 'copper horseman') is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great in the Senate Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was opened to the public on 18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1782. Commissioned by Catherine the Great, it was created by the French sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet. The statue influenced an 1833 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg.
The statue's pedestal is the Thunder Stone, the largest stone ever moved by humans. The stone originally weighed about 1500 tonnes, but was carved down during transportation to its current size and weight of 1,250 tons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bronze Horseman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.