05.06.1805 – 20.11.1867

June 5, 1805 was born the famous Russian sculptor, the largest master of monumental animalism, Pyotr Karlovich Klodt. According to the family tradition, the future sculptor was preparing for a military career and in 1822 he entered the Artillery School in St. Petersburg. However, in 1828 Klodt left the service, devoting all his free time to copying samples of antique sculpture. After two years of independent work, in 1830, Peter Klodt entered the Academy of Arts as an auditor. And already in 1831, Pyotr Karlovich together with sculptors S. S. Pimenov and V. I. Demut-Malinovsky worked on a sculptural group of six horses, harnessed to the chariot of Glory, to decorate the arch of the Narva triumphal gates in St. Petersburg. This work was the first monumental work of the young sculptor and allowed the master to loudly declare himself.

After the death of his mentor – the famous Russian caster Vasily Yekimov, Peter Klodt headed the Foundry of the Academy of Arts.

The sculptor created not a few works that have become an integral part of the ensemble of St. Petersburg. Bronze bas-reliefs of St. Isaac’s Cathedral, a monument to IA Krylov, equestrian statue of Nicholas I, which became a true decoration of St. Isaac’s Square. But the most famous Klodt brought ensemble “Tamer of horses” of the four sculptural groups for the Anichkov Bridge. Horse groups are brilliantly simply connected by plot plot. The sculptor portrayed four moments of taming the unbroken horse – fear, anger, fury, proud obedience. Anichkov’s horses are rightly considered the peak of Klodt’s creativity.

Petr Karlovich Klodt cast bronze and other famous monumental works – a monument to Peter I in Kronstadt, a statue of St. Vladimir in Kiev, a quadriga of the Bolshoi Theater, a monument to N.M. Karamzin in Simbirsk, a monument to G.R. Derzhavin in Kazan, ataman M. I. Platov in Novocherkassk.