PETER THE GREAT
June 9, 1672-February 8, 1725
"THE BRONZE HORSEMAN"
Monument to Tsar Peter I ("The Great")
by E.M. Falconet
St. Petersburg, Russia
Photographed in Leningrad, USSR, 1984
A close-up of the Tsar and the horse can be found here; a view of the other side, with the snake at the Tsar's back, can be found here.
Peter the Great was in the news just now when Dmitry Trenin opined that "If Peter the Great were alive today he would relocate the capital to Vladivostok not St Petersburg" -- that is, to Asia, not closer to (Western) Europe. For, continued Trenin, "The Pacific is the equivalent of the Baltic Sea in the 18th century. It's where the action is."
Vladivostok is where Russian President Vladimir Putin (a native of Peter the Great's capital of St. Petersburg) is hosting the 2012 APEC summit.
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