
Monument to Alexander III is very different from the usual image of the Russian Tsars on horseback. He ponderously and quietly sitting on a horse, to match him, while the statue of Peter I the same radiates energy and excitement. The Emperor did not like so much of his image that he was not invited to the opening of the sculptor and thought to send a monument in Irkutsk. However, May 23, 1909 he was installed on Znamensky Square near the Moscow railway station today. Due to the roughness...