Falconet statue question

[Valentino, Russell]

Dear colleagues,

I'm having trouble recalling who reads Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great as symbolic of the Russian people, with its peasant rear hooves planted in the soil but its intelligentsia front hooves uprooted and floating above Europe. Or maybe it's all about the intelligentsia? Sorry, it's a memory from something I read long ago. Is this in a Sinyavsky book? I'd appreciate a lead or two.

Thanks.

Russell Valentino

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