Riga – Equestrian statues https://equestrianstatue.org by Kees van Tilburg Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:38:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.11 Peter the Great https://equestrianstatue.org/peter-the-great/ Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:00:00 +0000 http://equestrianstatue.org/?p=1799 Photographers unknown The Peter the Great statue was originally erected in Riga at the beginning of the last century only to be torn down by the Russians during WW I. They intended to melt the statue into bullets. However, the ship it was traveling on was hit and sunk near the coast of Estonia and … Continue reading "Peter the Great"

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