Sculpted in bronze, a smaller Orfey Statue stands before you. This isn’t the famed Bronze Horseman, but a different Orfey entirely. This statue, reaching a height of 1.92 meters, was unveiled on September 27, 1995. It’s a more recent addition to Saint Petersburg’s artistic landscape, created by the artist Ershov M.M. While the Bronze Horseman celebrates Peter the Great, this Orfey, with its lyre, evokes a different kind of power. The power of music and myth. It invites you to consider the enduring human fascination with artistic expression, a legacy as old as time itself.
М. К. Прудников
Born into a peasant family in 1913, Mikhail Prudnikov’s journey began in a small village nestled within the Tomsk Governorate.