Moscow, Russia
Peter the Great Statue
The Peter the Great Statue is a 98-metre-high monument to Peter the Great, located at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in central Moscow, Russia. It was designed by the Georgian designer Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate 300 years of the Russian Navy, which Peter the Great established. Erected in 1997, the sculpture weighs around 1000 tons and contains 600 tons of stainless steel, bronze and copper.
- City
- Moscow
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
More places in Moscow
- Bolshoi Theatre
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
- Central Dynamo Stadium
- Moscow Leningradsky railway station
- Red Square
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
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