- CountryRussia
- Town:Saint Petersburg
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Year of creation:2002
- Rider(s):Nevsky, Alexander
(1220–1263), Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, is regarded as a key figure of medieval Rus. Alexander rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German and Swedish invaders while accepting to pay tribute to the powerful Mongol Golden Horde.
- Sculptor(s):Kozenyuk, Valentin
( – 1997
The statue was the life’s work of local sculptor Valentin Kozenyuk, who originally created a plaster model in 1975. Molded in bronze in 1987, the statue won two awards for monument design, but had still not been mounted when Kozenyuk passed away in 1997.
It was left to his students to continue his work. Although the depiction of the saint is purportedly the artist’s imagining, many have called attention to the facial similarities with Nikolay Cherkasov, the actor who played the lead in Sergey Eisenstein’s 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. Either way, it is undoubtedly one of the finest public monuments in St. Petersburg.
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