Peter the Great

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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 the recovered statue was sold to Latvia in the 1930s. It has been renovated with private money and stashed from place to place.

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