alexander the great marble bust 18th century granite pedestal summer garden petersburg

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Alexander the Great. Marble bust of the 18th century on a granite pedestal in the Summer Garden, St. Petersburg

Marble statue by the Italian sculptor P. Baratta, c. 1720. The Summer Garden or Letniy Sad is a historic public garden that occupies an eponymous island between the Neva, Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in downtown Saint Petersburg, Russia and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great