article_snippet: A bust of Vladmir Putin, depicting the Russian leader dressed as a Roman emperor, is to be unveiled in St Petersburg.
article_snippet: the St Petersburg statue is being gifted by St.
article_snippet: The bust is at the St Petersburg's Academy of arts, ahead to The bust unveiling at an underground station .
article_snippet: St Petersburg’s traditionalist Cossack group Irbis, a popular organisation supporting Slavic military values, said The bust will be placed at an underground station in north St Petersburg.
article_snippet: The bust’s designer, sculptor Pavel Greshnikov, was quoted as saying Vladmir Putin had considered portraying the Russian leader in a suit and tie, in military fatigues and even in medieval armour.
article_snippet: the Putin Statue is complete with a laurel wreath and other trappings of the Roman Empire.
article_snippet: the Putin Statue is at Greshinov’s workshop at the St Petersburg's Academy of arts, ahead to the Putin Statue .
article_snippet: Lenin was commemorated in bronze throughout the USSR.
article_snippet: However in many places the statues were torn down after the fall of communism .
article_snippet: Boris Yeltsin, Putin’s predecessor, has also been immortalised in sculpture.
article_snippet: A statue of the Russian leader was erected in Yekaterinburg in 2011.
highlights_snippet: Vladmir Putin to be shown in a laurel wreath and a wearing a Roman tunic .
  
highlights_snippet: Sculptor said Sculptor considered putting Vladmir Putin in a suit of armour or in fatigues .