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# Does the bust of Peter the First in Brussels stand on the spot where the Tsar was sick after a drinking bout in April 1717?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/biust-petra-pervogo-v-briussele-ustanovlen-na-meste-gde-tsaria-vyrvalo-posle-popoiki-v-aprele-1717-goda/
- Published: 2025-05-16T11:04:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:08.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Heritage, Mores, Humour

The bust is said to have been accompanied by a Latin inscription: "On 16 April 1717, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Grand Duke Peter Alekseyevich, Tsar of Muscovy, sat down on the edge of this fountain and sprinkled its waters with the wine he had drunk." If it ever existed, the inscription has not survived to our day, and the plaque that does exist reads: "In memory of the stay of Peter the Great in Brussels in 1717." The story of the scandalous and indecent conduct of the Russian Tsar comes from the book by the Englishman Patrick Deroo, "Monuments and Memorials of Brussels." As so often in local history, it may be simply a myth. Although, given the number of anecdotes about how Peter got merry and smashed or contrived something, it sounds quite plausible and perfectly innocent.

The bust of Peter the Great, marking the consequences of the imperial carouse, was presented by Prince Demidov in 1854 and installed in 1856.

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