Monument

Vladimir Lenin Monument

The statue of Vladimir Lenin outside the Finland Railway Station (sculptors Vladimir Schuko and Sergei Yevseyev, architect Vladimir Gelfreich) was one of the first monuments to the Russian revolution...

Catherine the Great Monument

Mikhail Mikeshin designed the monument to Catherine the Great in front of the Alexandrinsky Theatre (1863–73). Sculptures of the empress’s associates are grouped around the pedestal. The figures of P...

Tsar Alexander III Monument

Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy ’s equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III was opened on Holy Sign (Znamenskaya) Square in front of the Nicholas Railway Station on 23 May 1909. Immortalising the founder of ...

Bronze Horseman

In 1766, Étienne-Maurice Falconet, a French sculptor and professor of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris, was invited to Russia by Catherine the Great to work on a statue of Pet...

Rostral Columns

Built by architect Jean-François Thomas de Thomon (1805–10). Designed to serve as lighthouses with lanterns at the top in the form of cups on tripods and to underline the importance of the Stock Excha...

Alexander Column

The Alexander Column was built on Palace Square in memory of the Russian victory over Napoleon in the Patriotic War (1812). Designed by Auguste de Montferrand (1830–34), the column consists of a sing...

Tsar Nicholas I Monument

The monument to Tsar Nicholas I (1856–59) was opened on Mariinskaya (St Isaac’s) Square on the morning of 25 June 1859. The entire ensemble was designed by Auguste de Montferrand, while Baron Peter C...

Alexander Suvorov Monument

Mikhail Kozlovsky’s monument to Count Alexander Suvorov (1730–1800) was officially opened on 5 May 1801 at the southern end of Tsaritsa Meadow ( Field of Mars ), where it was positioned by Andrei Vor...

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