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![Thunder Stone](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-2.jpg)
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![Etienne Falconet (1716-1791) The author of the monument is the](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-3.jpg)
Etienne Falconet
(1716-1791)
The author of the monument is the great French
sculptor Etienne Falconet.
He was born in Paris in 1716.
At the age of 50 he arrived Russia and started to work on the monument.
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![Etienne Falconet](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-4.jpg)
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![Marie Ann Collot Etienne Falconet’s pupil, created the head of](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-5.jpg)
Marie Ann Collot
Etienne
Falconet’s pupil,
created the head
of the rider.
She arrived
Russia at
the age of 17.
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![The inauguration of the monument (1782)](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-6.jpg)
The inauguration of the monument (1782)
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![In August of 1941](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-7.jpg)
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![Vasiliy Surikov (1870) , the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-9.jpg)
Vasiliy Surikov (1870) , the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
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![The Russian sculptor Feodor Gordeyev moulded the snake.](/_ipx/f_webp&q_80&fit_contain&s_1440x1080/imagesDir/jpg/10705/slide-11.jpg)
The Russian sculptor Feodor Gordeyev moulded the snake.