Editing Alexander III of Russia (section)

==Monuments==
[[File:Marble Palace (oriental frontage).jpg|thumb|The equestrian statue of Alexander III, by Prince [[Paolo Troubetzkoy]], shows the Emperor sitting heavily on the back of a ponderous horse]]
[[File:The monument of Russian Emperor Alexander III.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial dedicated to Alexander III in Pullapää, [[Estonia]]]]
In 1909, a bronze [[equestrian statue]] of Alexander III sculpted by [[Paolo Troubetzkoy]] was placed in [[Znamenskaya Square]] in front of the [[Moskovsky Rail Terminal (Saint Petersburg)|Moscow Rail Terminal]] in [[St. Petersburg]]. Both the horse and rider were sculpted in massive form, leading to the nickname of "hippopotamus". Troubetzkoy envisioned the statue as a [[caricature]], jesting that he wished "to portray an animal atop another animal", and it was quite controversial at the time, with many, including the members of the Imperial Family, opposed to the design, but it was approved because the [[Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark)|Empress Dowager]] unexpectedly liked the monument. Following the [[Russian Revolution|Revolution of 1917]], the statue remained in place as a symbol of tsarist autocracy until 1937 when it was placed in storage. In 1994, it was again put on public display, although in a different place – in front of the [[Marble Palace]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Orlando|last=Figes|page=15|title=A People's Tragedy|isbn=0-7126-7327-X|year=1997|publisher=Pimlico }}</ref> Another pre-revolutionary memorial is located in the city of [[Irkutsk]] at the [[Angara River|Angara]] embankment.

For Alexander's role in forging the [[Franco-Russian Alliance]], the French Republic commissioned a bridge named in his honour, [[Pont Alexandre III]]. It was opened by his son, Nicholas II, and exists to this day.

On 18 November 2017, [[Vladimir Putin]] unveiled a bronze monument to Alexander III on the site of the former Maly Livadia Palace in Crimea. The four-meter monument by Russian sculptor [[Andrey Kovalchuk]] depicts Alexander III sitting on a stump, his stretched arms resting on a sabre. An inscription says "Russia has only two allies: the Army and the Navy", although historians dispute whether the Tsar actually said those words.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tass.com/society/976333|title=Putin unveils monument to Russia's Tsar Alexander III in Crimea |date=18 November 2017 |publisher=TASS |access-date=19 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="BM">{{cite book |first1=Alexander Mikhailovich |last1=Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia |title=Book of Memories |date=1933 |publisher=Illustrated Russia |url=http://www.rummuseum.ru/lib_a/al_mih05.php |access-date=12 May 2021 |author1-link=Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia |archive-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117094024/http://www.rummuseum.ru/lib_a/al_mih05.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> Alexander III is believed to be one of Putin's admired historic leaders, along with [[Joseph Stalin]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://eurasianet.org/the-royal-role-model-historical-revisionism-in-russia|first=Igor|last=Torbakov|title=The Royal Role Model: Historical Revisionism in Russia|newspaper=Eurasianet|date=12 January 2018|access-date=9 April 2021}}</ref> On 5 June 2021, he unveiled another monument to Alexander on the site of [[Gatchina Palace]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 June 2021 |title=Unveiling of monument to Emperor Alexander III |url=http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/65751 |access-date= |website=[[Kremlin.ru]] |language=en}}</ref>

There remains a [[:pl:Pomnik ku czci ocalenia Aleksandra III w Zaczerlanach|monument dedicated to Alexander III]] in [[Zaczerlany]], [[Poland]].