On 8/30/2010 9:55 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
I have seen the statue in Moscow, and it is indeed enourmous.
The irony, of course, is that Peter hated Moscow and everything it
stood for. The more famous statue in the Bronze Horseman in St
Petersburg, by Falconet, which was imortalised in the Pushkin poem:
http://www.saint-petersburg.com/monuments/bronze-horseman.asp
Fascinating language barrier example. In Russian this is called "Copper
Horseman" and you really had me wondering where in St Petersburg there
is another horseman, made of bronze... Though of course likely the
Russian term is misleading chemically as well...
Boris
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