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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" class="extiw" title="en:Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a> (Russia), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Square_(Saint_Petersburg)" class="extiw" title="en:Senate Square (Saint Petersburg)">Senate Square</a>. In the center, the Monument to Peter the Great,  The Bronze Horseman, (1768—78, designed by E.-M. Falconet and М. Collot, who executed Peter the Great's head). The pedestal of an enormous granite boulder and the grille around the monument (the latter existed until 1903) were made in accordance with Y. Velten's design. The inauguration of the monument was on August 7, 1782. To the left, the building of the Senate. To the right, over the Neva, the Academy of Arts (by A. Kokorinov and J.-B. Vallin de la Mothe) and the buildings of the Vasilyevsky Island. In the foreground, to the right,  a portion of the Hauptwache's (Guardhouse) portico close to the Admiralty.</div>
<bdi>After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Benjamin_Patersen" class="extiw" title="w:en:Benjamin Patersen"><span title="Swedish painter">Benjamin Patersen</span></a>
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1799<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Aurora Art Publishers. 1971, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.arthermitage.org/Ludvig/Senate-Square-with-the-Monument-of-Peter-the-Great.html">arthermitage.org (size; quality)</a>