Talk:Monument to Nicholas I

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Did you know... that the Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/June.

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atrociously garbled English

HELP! has anyone read this article??? It is some of the worst English I ever saw! I.e. "The answer of Mathilde Kschessinska is Nicholas II favourites on the offer is widely known to lodge in Mariinsky Palace: she has refused, motivating with that two emperors have already turned away from an ill-fated building and it would not like at all that the third has joined them. By two emperors ballerina meant statues Bronze Horseman and Monument to Nicholas I. Later similar moods began to attribute and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolayevna of Russia. But that Maria actively participated in work on a monument and it so anywhere and has not moved calls into question this legend." Huh??? What?

Someone with knowledge of the topic and a knowledge of English needs to go over this article and correct the language! --noclador (talk) 22:20, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the first 3 paragraphs and the introduction are fine - the rest needs a major rewrite. I have no idea about the factuality of the text and no information about the monument itself, therefore I will not perform the needed rewrite, but hope that someone more competent will shoulder this task. --noclador (talk) 22:25, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok,some of the English is not good, but because I wanted to know about this statue, I am very grateful to whoever it was who shared his knowledge when obviously English is not his first language. Please don't remove it. --ANZLitLovers (talk) 23:44, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have now had a go at fixing up the English, without altering any of the facts. I have added definite and indefinite articles, and altered some which were used incorrectly. I have moved around subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses without (I hope) altering any meaning. I translated (using google translate) the Russian word for contradicted. I replaced some words with better English alternatives e.g. restoration. I replaced all refs to Nikolay with Nicholas. So now it reads better than it did, though it's still a bit clunky. It would be great if someone who knows more about the statue could read through it, but I think the local knowledge of the legends and rumours about this statue are irreplaceable!ANZLitLovers (talk) 00:45, 12 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I have tidied up much of the English grammar, including tense changes, into the last section on the recent restorations, the account of which stops in 2009 and deserves updating.Cloptonson (talk) 22:25, 23 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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The Monument to Nicholas I is a bronze equestrian monument of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia located in Saint Isaac's Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Created by French sculptor Auguste de Montferrand and unveiled in 1859, the statue was considered a technical wonder at the time of its creation and is one of only a few bronze statues with just two support points (the rear hooves of the horse).Photograph: Godot13

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