In St. Petersburg there is a monument to the last Russian emperor, to whom monuments were reluctantly erected even after 1991.
Address:
St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 128
The initiative to install the monument did not belong to the city authorities or a political party, but to the parish of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross.
This is the first monument to Nicholas II in St. Petersburg (before that, the sculptural image was installed in Tsarskoe Selo). The monument to Nicholas II was erected on His Majesty’s birthday, May 19, 2002.
The bust of the emperor is located near the temple in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God on the territory of the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Cross.
At the base of the monument are capsules with soil from all historical Cossack troops of the Russian Empire. sculptor - S. Alipov. St. Petersburg, Ligovsky prospect, 128.
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