Monument to Peter I

1. Monument to Peter I

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3. Thunder Stone

4. Etienne Falconet (1716-1791)

• The author of the monument is the
great French sculptor Etienne
Falconet.
• He was born in Paris in 1716.
• At the age of 50 he arrived Russia
and started to work on the
monument.

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Etienne Falconet

6. Marie Ann Collot

Etienne
Falconet’s pupil,
created the head
of the rider.
She arrived Russia at
the age of 17.

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The inauguration of the monument (1782)

8. In August of 1941

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10. Vasiliy Surikov (1870) , the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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The Russian sculptor Feodor Gordeyev
moulded the snake.

13. Использованные интернет-ресурсы

1.http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D
0%B9%D0%BB:Thunder_Stone.jpg
2.http://shoyher.narod.ru/Portret/Folkoneeten.jgg
3.http://www.tsarselo.ru/images/photos/medium/
c1bffce803136868109f0f78b875e3a2.jpg
4. http://www.tanais.info/art/pic/surikov9.htm
5. http://www.etoretro.ru/pic14086.htm