USSR commemorative coin

Monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg

Par : 5 rubles

Release Date: 12.10.1988

Mint: Leningrad Mint (LMD) ( ST. Petersburg)

Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Романов, Пётр I, Pyotr I, or Пётр Великий, Pyotr Velikiy) (9 June [O.S. 30 May] 1672 – 8 February [O.S. 28 January] 1725)[1] ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V.

He carried out a policy of modernization and expansion that transformed the Tsardom of Russia into a 3-billion acre Russian Empire, a major European power.

The Bronze Horseman (literally "The Copper Horseman") is an equestrian statue of Peter the Great by Étienne Maurice Falconet in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is also the name of a narrative poem written by Aleksandr Pushkin about the statue in 1833, widely considered to be one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue came to be known as the Bronze Horseman because of the great influence of the poem. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg, in much the same way that the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of New York City.

The statue's pedestal is the enormous Thunder Stone, sometimes claimed to be the largest stone ever moved by man.