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3 unusual facts about Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg


Kasli iron sculpture

The best works of Kasli iron casting art made after the original models by the well-known Russian and Western European sculptors Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Eugene Lanceray, etc.

Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg

Klodt's last significant work was a posthumous tribute to his patron, a horse statue for the equestrian Monument to Nicholas I on Saint Isaac's Square, which has the distinction of being the first equestrian statue in the world with merely two support points (the rear feet of the horse).

Klodt's most famous group of horse sculptures, the Horse Tamers, was installed at the Anichkov Bridge in 1851.



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