Peter the Great "The Tsar Carpenter"

The impressive monument to Peter the Great "Tsar Carpenter" which now stands on the Admiralty embankment has a particularly fascinating history. The highly detailed monument portrays a young and determined Peter the Great undergoing the laborious task of building a ship with rolled up sleeves and an axe in one clenched hand. Three hundred years ago a young Peter the Great set off to the city of Zaandam in Holland to learn the craft of ship building which he would bring back with him to Russia to help build the Russian Navy.