This statue is crazy. It'd been a good gift if Russia could have paid to move it. But after the cold war ended there was no money for such things - in the US or Russia it seems. Repurposing it as a monument i Moscow is a good idea. Want not waste not. Choosing Peter the Great who didn't like...
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Peter The Great Monument, Moscow
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Moscow's Peter the Great monument definitely stands out at 322 feet of stainless steel, bronze, and copper and is housed less than a mile from the......
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Moscow's Peter the Great monument definitely stands out at 322 feet of stainless steel, bronze, and copper and is housed less than a mile from the famous Kremlin wall. The monument, created by sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, depicts the Russian czar at the wheel of a ship with a document in his hands.
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They say that this "sculpture" was built to memorise Christophor Columbus, and was to be presented to the United States. However even the US (they normally like BIG things) refused to take it, so the thing was turned into Peter I and placed in the middle of Moscow river...
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It's like a big pimple on a face. You can't miss it and it is just ugly.
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Really this solid piece of bronze wasn't devoted to Peter but to Gulliver. And all the story is an example of corruption.
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Huge, impressive, specially if you see it from thtrip boat at Moscow river
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Initially erected as monument to Columbus it was later 'corrected' by its author to depict Peter the Great. By common opinion the monument spoilt the view on Moskva river embankment.
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