Eques­tri­an mon­u­ment to Peter I by Eti­enne Fal­conet, installed in the cen­ter of Sen­ate Square. The pedestal for the sculp­ture is the famous gran­ite mono­lith “Thun­der Stone” weigh­ing 1600 tons. The mon­u­ment depicts a rock, on the edge of which Peter stopped a rear­ing horse. The image of this mon­u­ment is one of the most rec­og­niz­able sym­bols of St. Peters­burg.