The Monument to Nicholas I (Russian: Памятник Николаю I) is a bronze equestrian monument of Nicholas I of Russia on St Isaac's Square (in front of Saint...
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the monuments to Kutuzov and Barclay de Tolly. The statues were made by Boris Orlovsky, and the bases by Vasily Stasov. The Monument to Nicholas I was...
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Nicholas I (6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1855) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from...
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Peredvizhniki school. The monument to Nicholas I of Russia in St. Petersburg, late 19th century photochrome print. The monument to Nicholas I of Russia, modern...
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is only the second oldest in the world of this kind, after the Monument to Nicholas I in Saint Petersburg, outdoing the achievement of Tacca's equestrian...
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Church of the Savior on Blood (category Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg)
memorial to his father. Estimates suggest that the construction cost 4.5 million rubles. The construction was completed during the reign of Nicholas II in...
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Saint Isaac's Square (category Cultural heritage monuments in Saint Petersburg)
separates it from Senate Square. The square is graced by the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I. The Lobanov-Rostovsky House (1817–1820) on the west side of the...
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and popular festivities. Saint Isaac's Square is graced by the Monument to Nicholas I (1856–1859), which was spared by Bolshevik authorities from destruction...
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Church – The Heart of the Andes Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg – Monument to Nicholas I (Saint Petersburg), the world's largest equestrian statue supported...
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Saint Petersburg (redirect from Monuments of Saint Petersburg)
suppressed Decembrist revolt against Nicholas I took place on the Senate Square in the city, a day after Nicholas assumed the throne. By the 1840s, neoclassical...
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Alexander Column (category Monuments and memorials in Saint Petersburg)
Russia. The monument was raised after the Russian victory in the war with Napoleon's France. The column is named for Emperor Alexander I of Russia, who...
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Palace Square (category Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Saint Petersburg)
These plans came to fruition half a century later, when Alexander I of Russia (reigned 1801–1825) envisaged the square as a vast monument to the 1812–1814...
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Leningrad Hero City Obelisk (redirect from To Leningrad the Hero City Obelisk)
Ленинграду») is a monument in the shape of an obelisk located in Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. It...
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Obelisk Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution Monument to Nicholas I Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg Monument to Peter I (Peter and...
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most familiar works are the bas-reliefs on the pedestal of the Monument to Nicholas I, in Saint Petersburg, some external decorations at the Cathedral...
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officers who wanted to install Nicholas' brother as a constitutional monarch. But the revolt was easily crushed, leading Nicholas to turn away from liberal...
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an assistant to Auguste de Montferrand, and helped to draft the plans for a monument to Tsar Nicholas I, under the direction of Nicholas Benois. His work...
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Alexander Palace (category Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg)
however, he chose to reside in the much larger Catherine Palace nearby. Alexander I gave the palace to his brother, the future Nicholas I, for summer usage...
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Berlin and buried in the cemetery, with a grand monument erected two years later to the design of architect I. I. Gornostayev, with sculptures by Nikolay Laveretsky...
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The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United...
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it was more likely modelled from life by Gerard's brother, Nicholas Johnson. The monument features a demi-figure of the poet holding a (real) quill pen...
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Alexander III of Russia (section Monuments)
friend Nixa [Nicholas]" and lamented that "a terrible responsibility fell on my shoulders" when Nicholas died. As tsesarevich, Alexander began to study the...
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Empire. In 1883, Prince Peter married Princess Ljubica, daughter of King Nicholas I of Montenegro. Ljubica became known as Princess Zorka upon her marriage...
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Obelisk Monument to Nicholas I Monument to Peter I (Peter and Paul Fortress) Monument to Peter I (St. Michael's Castle) Rimsky-Korsakov Monument Museums...
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and Katherine, daughter of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden and Elizabeth FitzHugh, the former Lady Parr. Nicholas was an uncle of the conspirator...
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The Monument to the Tsar Liberator (Bulgarian: Паметник на Цар Освободител, romanized: Pametnik na Tsar Osvoboditel) is an equestrian monument in the centre...
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Montezuma Castle National Monument protects a set of well-preserved dwellings located in Camp Verde, Arizona, which were built and used by the Sinagua...
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Sir Nicholas Bacon (28 December 1510 – 20 February 1579) was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the first half of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England...
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Kiliński") and on 13 March adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument: "For removal of the Kiliński statue, I am extending the winter by two months. Kopernik...
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1840, the monument was assembled again, and during an inspection of the fortress by Tsar Nicholas I, it was decided to scrap the monument, but he changed...
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