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This response from a student in Soviet Studies at Duke University, Alison
Rowley.

Lee Sorensen
Lilly Art Library
Duke University

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>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:23:33 -0500 (EST)
>From: Alison  Rowley <<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind9702%26L%3DARLIS-L%26E%3D7BIT%26P%3D67771%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fplaintext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>>
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>Subject: Re: St. Petersburg statue
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>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.
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