Anichkov Bridge

This guide to Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg follows sculptor Peter Klodt, who kept casting bronze horse-taming statues faster than Tsar Nicholas the First could resist giving them away to Berlin and Naples, so the four horses meant for this bridge only stood together for the first time in 1851. It also covers what happened to them during the wartime siege, when workers pulled the statues from their pedestals and buried them nearby. Look closely at one pedestal for scars left unrepaired on purpose, and at the horse nearest the palace for a face generations of Petersburgers claim Klodt hid in the mane.