The
Bronze Horseman
Researches
The
Bronze Horseman, an impressive monument to the founder of St Petersburg, Peter
the Great,stands
on Senatskaia Ploschad' (Square), facing the Neva River and surrounded by the Admiralty,
St
Isaac's Cathedral
and the buildings of the former Senate and Synod - the civil and
religious governing bodies of pre-revolutionary Russia.
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 Catarina Secunda - To
Peter the First from Catherine the Second.