Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow, also known as Ivan the Great. Detail of the Monument to the Millennium of Russia (1862) designed by Russian sculptor Mikhail Mikeshin in Veliky Novgorod, Russia. The statue of Ivan the Great represents the foundation of an independent Russian Tsardom (1491). Ivan the Great is depicted wearing dress of Byzantine emperors with the Monomach's Cap on his head and holding a sceptre and a globus cruciger in his hands. A Tatar kneeling beside Ivan the Great represents the expulsion of the Tatars after the Great Stand on the Ugra River (1480).

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Size: 2000px × 3000px
Location: Novgorod, Russia
Photo credit: © Azoor Photo Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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