Monument to Alexander Nevsky, St. Petersburg

Alexander Nevsky Plaza . Nevsky is often heralded as uniting the Russian people when he pushed the Swedes back to the Baltic Sea in 1240.

Weighing nine tons and standing almost nine meters high, this impressive equestrian statue, erected in 2002, honours one of the symbolic protectors of St. Petersburg and provides a symmetrical counterpoint to the Bronze Horseman, the famous monument to Peter the Great at the opposite end of the historic centre.