This monument is installed in the yard of a specialized boarding school for the blind and visually impaired persons. The sculpture depicts figure of a girl reading a book for blind written by using a special relief font. First book of this kind was issued in 1882. The author was a great Russian ophthalmologist A.I. Skrebitsky. More

A monument to all lovers is established in a public garden of a usual court in the north of St.-Petersburg. The sculpture represents embraced young man and a girl. They take shelter from rain under an umbrella. This public garden is situated between Grazhdansky Prospect 21/2, 23/4, 25/2 and Butlerova Street 22/2. There is an interesting legend related... More

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The monument to the Invisible man being stands just in front of the entrance to the mental hospital. The legend says that earlier (till 1931) on the pedestal there was a bust of Alexander the second, the founder of the hospital. More

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A sculpture by Anikushin was casted in the far 1987 but was established in a public garden only in 2000. Nearly the same time a popular song “Ya soshla s uma” (“I’ve gone mad”) issued and every busybody in town called the hand in hand bronze girls an illustration for “Tatu” (a band of two lesbian style girls).... More

This monument used to be situated on a lamp post. The tragedy took place on the 21st of March, 1991. Two little boys were walking on ice and fell into the ice water. They couldn’t get out of the water themselves. To their luck Alexandr Petrovich Rozhnov was driving by. Without thinking he threw into the water and saved them at the cost of his... More

People of nice small town Zelenogorsk expressed their reverence towards all old persons in a very hearty and unusual way – they put a monument to the grandmother. On a small pedestal there is a chair, glasses, knitting (not finished sock) and a ball with spokes, and there is a look that the old woman is just away for a short while. To tell the... More

The most unusual angel of Petersburg lives on the roof of the Lithuanian consulate. He doesn’t look like a "classical" angel. It’s a prankish lovely boy of a very modern style :) He looks downwards at the people as if he was the hero of the film “The Sky over Berlin”. And probably he is, but in the childhood :) More