The monument is located in the middle of the fortress near the Engineers' House. The memorial was created by Mikhail Shemyakin [1]. This statue portrays a Peter "sitting solidly in his place and exaggerates the features of his legendary physique, including his elongated, spidery fingers"[1].
There were a lot of arguments about the monument but they all have died down, and citizens love this statue. Now everyone wants to touch the memorial for good luck. People like to put flowers at the feet of the monument (as you can see from the picture).
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The advent of Peter the Great and Petersburg. Dartmouth College. Retrieved October 8, 2005, from http://www.dartmouth.edu/~russ15/russia_PI/peter_great_pt1.html
