Peter the Great Monument

On page 16- 17, Levinson discusses the "grandiose, $20 million, 150-foot nautical bronze statue of Peter the Great". Well here it is, and it is truly not well-liked by many Muscovites and was actually supposed to be a gift to the U.S. from a Russian artist of Christopher Columbus. Yet, the U.S. turned it down, so they unscrewed the head and screwed on a Peter the Great head. As the article said too the irony is that Peter the Great created St. Petersburg because he despised Moscow. So, the irony of a nautcal monument of Peter the Great placed in a virtually land-locked city that he hated is not lost on the residents, and actually is viewed as disrespectul to many of them. The power of a monument.