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The Bronze Horseman: Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great (Hardcover)
by AM Schenker (Author)

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Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (14 Nov 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0300097123
ISBN-13: 978-0300097122
Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 15.8 x 2.8 cm
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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 673,031 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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This is a comprehensive treatment of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia - the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or "The Bronze Horseman", as it has come to be known since it appeared in Alexander Pushkin's poem bearing that title. Schenker deals with the cultural setting that prepared the ground for the monument and provides life stories of those who were involved in its creation: the sculptors Etienne-Maurice Falconet and Marie-Anne Collot, the engineer Marin Carburi, the diplomat Dmitry Golitsyn and Catherine's "commissar" for culture, Ivan Betskoi. He also touches upon the extraordinary resonance of the monument in Russian culture, which, since the unveiling in 1782, has become the icon of St. Petersburg and has alimented the so-called "St. Petersburg theme" in Russian letters, familiar from the works of such writers as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol and Bely.