He stole seven times, but again and again he returned. The house number 6 on the embankment, which is located near the monument, from 1835 to 1918 was the Imperial College of Law, students who were dressed in green uniforms with yellow tabs and cuffs . Soglasnoizvestnoy Petersburg legend, for the color of his uniform, resembling plumage siskin, as well as the traditional reindeer-fawn hat students college became known as “finch-fawn».
The idea of the monument has occurred to writer Andrew bits in the time of the festival of satire and humor “Golden Ostap “in 1994 year. To realize this idea Georgian film director, screenwriter and sculptor Rezo Gabriadze together with architect Slava Buhaevym.
Walks belief which says that if you make a wish and get a coin in the pedestal of the monument (the coin have to remain lying on the rock), the desire by all means fulfilled. For newlyweds, there is another tradition: if the groom lowers a rope tied to a glass filled to the monument and “choknetsya” with beak Siskin, without breaking it, it will serve as a key to happiness for a young family.