A monument to the Russian Emperor Alexander III has been set up nearby the St. Panteleimon Church attached to the Skvortsov-Stepanov Mental Hospital in St. Petersburg.
      
      The sculpture has been located on the same place where before the revolution a similar massive bust monument to the tsar, peacemaker and the founder of the hospital, used to stand.
      
      All original photos of the monument were lost, so the sculptor Ivan Itegilov reconstructed it according to the pictures from newspapers of the early 20th century. The monument was restored 70 years after it had been demolished by the Bolsheviks.
      
      It is the second monument to the Emperor Alexander III in Saint Petersburg: the first one made by Paolo Trubetskoi, was open in 1909 in Znamensкaya Square in front of the Moscow Railway Station, and is presently located in the yard of the Marble Palace.
      
      Source: itar-tass.com