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Vosstaniya Square is a major square in the Central Business District of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The square lies at the crossing of Nevsky Prospekt, Ligovsky Prospekt, Vosstaniya Street and Goncharnaya Street, in front of the Moskovsky Rail Terminal, which is the northern terminus of the line connecting the city with Moscow. Administratively, the Vosstaniya Square falls under the authority of the Tsentralny District.HistoryFrom the 1840s to 1918 the square was known as Znamenskaya Square, after the built there between 1794 and 1804 to a Neoclassical design by. The church building commemorated the icon of Our Lady of the Sign,Four years before the Romanov Tercentenary, in 1909, Prince P. P. Trubetskoy completed a tremendous equestrian statue of Tsar Alexander III. It stood opposite Nikolayevsky Station in Znamenskaya Square. Even members of the imperial family ridiculed the statue; after the revolution the Bosheviks left it in place as a powerful and formidable representation of the autocracy until the 1930s, when it was removed. It remained in storage for fifty years before re-erection in 1994 in front of the Marble Palace (formerly the Leningrad branch of the Lenin Museum), on the former site of the armoured car that had transported Lenin from the Finland Station on 1917.
