The Bronze Horseman: Russia's Monument to Peter the Great

In this episode of The Russian Revolution: How the Tsars Lost Everything, Lucas and Luna explore the legacy of Peter the Great through the lens of the Bronze Horseman monument in Saint Petersburg. They discuss how the statue became a symbol of autocratic power, a target of revolutionary fury, and a contested icon in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. The conversation covers the statue's creation under Catherine the Great, its role in Alexander Pushkin's poem, the attempts to destroy it during the 1917 revolution, and its preservation by the Bolsheviks for propaganda purposes. They also touch on the Falconet's design, the Thunder Stone, and the statue's narrow escape from Nazi occupation. This episode offers a fresh angle on the Russian Revolution by examining how a single monument encapsulates the tensions between tradition and modernity, tyranny and freedom, that fueled the upheaval.

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