History: Legend says that as long as the bronze statue of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg stands, the city will never fall. During 900 day siege of Leningrad in WWII, citizens of the city built a makeshift bunker around it, the statue survived almost untouched and the city never fell. (1941) [770 × 483]

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