Talk:Stepan Pimenov

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:34, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Stepan Pimenov

... that Stepan Pimenov's (pictured) sculptures for the Admiralty building were removed and destroyed by order of Emperor Alexander II? Source: "In 1815, Pimenov took part in the decoration of the Admiralty, designed by A.D. Zakharov. The sculptor carved 16 statues ... This great work suffered a sad fate in 1860, under the barbarous order of Alexander II, the sculptures were removed, allegedly due to dilapidation, and destroyed." (and [1]

Reviewed: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent

Created by Spokoyni (talk). Self-nominated at 00:32, 28 May 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Long enough, new enough, sourced inline, and no copyvios detected. The hook is interesting to a broad audience and QPQ is done. AGF on non-English source. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 03:41, 1 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from Stepan Pimenov appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Stepan Pimenov's sculptures for the Admiralty building in St. Petersburg were removed and destroyed by order of Emperor Alexander II?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Stepan Pimenov.

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