We get the Peter Columbus salute every morning. This statue, standing 94 meters high on the Moscow River, is the 8th tallest statue in the world. As legend has it - the statue was initially of Christopher Columbus - but when the U.S. Government rejected it, its head was replaced and was sold to the Russian Government as a nautical statue of Peter the Great...hence the nickname “Peter Columbus”. In November 2008, it was voted the tenth ugliest building in the world...
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| From our bedroom window...with a zoom lens...thank goodness we can appreciate him from a distance! |
Some Muscovites are lobbying to have the structure removed...or blown up....poor guy.
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