Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad, known as Vorovsky Square between 1923 and 1944, in Saint Petersburg, Russia is a major city square sprawling between the Mariinsky Palace and Saint Is
View from Mariinsky Palace on St. Isaac's Cathedral.
View from St. Isaac's Cathedral on Mariinsky Palace, 21st century
The Monument to Nicholas I consists of an equestrian bronze statue of Nicholas I of Russia, placed on an elaborate pedestal. It stands in front of Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St Isaac's Square in Saint
Current state after restoration (2023)
The monument figures prominently in several works of fiction, including Andrei Bely's modernist novel Petersburg
Nikolay I pacifies cholera riot. Sculptor Ramazanov