The Bronze Horseman

The statue of Peter the Great on Senate Square, known as the The Bronze Horseman, after Pushkin’s poem of the same name, is one of the finest achievements of monumental sculpture. The Bronze Horseman is considered to be the symbol of Saint Petersburg. It was create in 1782 by the sculptor Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Peter’s head was executed by Marie-Anne Collot, a pupil of Falconet. The pedestal of the statue is a granite rock 8 meters high and weighing 1,600 tons.