Best places: Monuments in Saint Petersburg, Russia

City landmark commissioned by Catherine the Great, named for a Pushkin poem & completed in 1782.

Iconic monolith in the center of a square commemorating Russia’s victory over Napoleon’s France.

👍👍 Великолепный памятник, с которым связано немало мистических историй, городского фольклора и юмора. «Фи! Как же он может так размахивать руками? Ведь он же дворянин» (Анна Ахматова)

👍👍 This is a monument to Przhevalsky. Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky was a Russian geographer of Polish origin and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia. Although he never reached his ultimate goal, the holy city of Lhasa in Tibet, he traveled through regions then unknown to the West, such as...