Monument to Nicholas I
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Address: pl. Isaakievskaya, St. Petersburg
The most beautiful emperor during his lifetime and “unforgettable” in death, Nicholas I spent his entire life imitating his illustrious ancestor, Peter the Great.
But there was nothing in common between the reformer sovereign and the despotic formalist. During the reign of the emperor, the country was in economic decline, as it was before Peter. The naked arbitrariness of power and blatant serfdom were simultaneously combined with the dawn of Russian culture and the systematization of laws. Further in history, Nicholas’s son, according to the plan developed by the great French architect Montferrand, erected a monument to his father on St. Isaac’s Square.
The remarkable Russian architect Pyotr Klodt depicted the emperor in a ceremonial uniform, the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment. Having become a military man from a young age, the uniform was a permanent form of clothing. The bas-reliefs, a six-meter high equestrian sculpture, tell the story of important historical events that took place during the reign of the emperor of the Romanov dynasty.
The noble revolutionary movement, the pacification of the rebellion of ordinary people during the cholera epidemic on Sennaya Square, the reward of an outstanding Russian reformer, legislator of the Russian Empire, the opening of the railway bridge, the highest and longest in the city. Four mysterious female sculptures adorn the dais of the monument.
Representing strength, wisdom, justice, faith. The great sculptor used portraits of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the Tsar’s daughters as life models. The monument is given beauty by the bronze and gilded state emblem placed between the first sculptures and the epitaph “Nicholas I Emperor of All Russia 1859”. The technical skill of the time, the statue placed on two fulcrum points, was considered a great invention of Russian engineering.
Due to the weighting of the horse's croup and the supporting pillars that run across the entire monument from the hind hooves, the sculpture has withstood more than one era. After the revolution, the question of demolishing the monument was repeatedly raised, but thanks to art historians, the monument was preserved. As a historical landmark, the monument is surrounded by a magnificent fence and the most beautiful lanterns in St. Petersburg.
But there was nothing in common between the reformer sovereign and the despotic formalist. During the reign of the emperor, the country was in economic decline, as it was before Peter. The naked arbitrariness of power and blatant serfdom were simultaneously combined with the dawn of Russian culture and the systematization of laws. Further in history, Nicholas’s son, according to the plan developed by the great French architect Montferrand, erected a monument to his father on St. Isaac’s Square.
The remarkable Russian architect Pyotr Klodt depicted the emperor in a ceremonial uniform, the Life Guards Cavalry Regiment. Having become a military man from a young age, the uniform was a permanent form of clothing. The bas-reliefs, a six-meter high equestrian sculpture, tell the story of important historical events that took place during the reign of the emperor of the Romanov dynasty.
The noble revolutionary movement, the pacification of the rebellion of ordinary people during the cholera epidemic on Sennaya Square, the reward of an outstanding Russian reformer, legislator of the Russian Empire, the opening of the railway bridge, the highest and longest in the city. Four mysterious female sculptures adorn the dais of the monument.
Representing strength, wisdom, justice, faith. The great sculptor used portraits of Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna and the Tsar’s daughters as life models. The monument is given beauty by the bronze and gilded state emblem placed between the first sculptures and the epitaph “Nicholas I Emperor of All Russia 1859”. The technical skill of the time, the statue placed on two fulcrum points, was considered a great invention of Russian engineering.
Due to the weighting of the horse's croup and the supporting pillars that run across the entire monument from the hind hooves, the sculpture has withstood more than one era. After the revolution, the question of demolishing the monument was repeatedly raised, but thanks to art historians, the monument was preserved. As a historical landmark, the monument is surrounded by a magnificent fence and the most beautiful lanterns in St. Petersburg.
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