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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- This response from a student in Soviet Studies at Duke University, Alison Rowley. Lee Sorensen Lilly Art Library Duke University ============================================================================ >X-Delivered: at request of ar3 on leguin.acpub.duke.edu >Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:23:33 -0500 (EST) >From: Alison Rowley <[log in to unmask]> >To: Lee Sorensen <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: St. Petersburg statue >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >Lee you can pass on the message that the statue is called "The Bronze >Horseman". It is of Peter the Great on a rearing horse and is actually >on Senate Square (where the Decembrists revolted in 1825). The statue >was commissed by Catherine the Great and the inscription says something >like to Peter I from Catherine II. The statue is an integral part of >Russian culture and often gets used in literature (see for example >Gogol's story The Overcoat). Hope all that helps. > >