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On August 30, 1834, in accordance with the project of the great architect Auguste Montferrand, in the very center of Palace Square, a column of pink coarse-grained rapakivi granite with a statue on its top 47.5 m high was installed—a monument to Alexander I who won the war of 1812–1814 with Napoleon. The monument consists of a pedestal (2.8 m) and a column scape (25.6 m).
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Filippov, N., Tochanskaya, S. (2023). The Alexander Column—From Finnish Friedrichsham to Palace Square in St. Petersburg. In: Panova, E. (eds) The History of Natural Stone in Saint-Petersburg. Geoheritage, Geoparks and Geotourism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18861-9_4
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