The Bronze Horseman on Senate Square is St Petersburg's most iconic monument — a dramatic statue of Peter the Great on a rearing horse, its hind legs trampling a serpent. Commissioned by Catherine the Great and sculpted by Etienne Falconet, it was unveiled in 1782. Pushkin immortalized it in his 1833 poem of the same name.
The square is a short walk from Nevsky Prospekt metro station along the Griboedov Canal embankment.