statues

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“Every year, one or two or three statues were erected. But they didn’t honor Lenin or Stalin. The statues were of Alexander I, of Peter the Great, of Catherine, of Nicholas I.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Nicole Moore said certain statues shouldn’t return to public spaces.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

The judge accepted that Crowley had inherited the statues from his grandfather and did not at any point believe that they were counterfeits.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

But, Goldberger goes on, “neither Trump’s arch nor his redone reflecting pool nor his gaggle of statues is a meaningful new layer of history.”

From Slate • May 18, 2026

After she has stood for more than an hour, as still as one of the circus statues, a man in a grey suit approaches her.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern