Finishing and polishing of the column was carried out after its installation.
impressive dimensions of the Alexander Column: The column itself – the height of 25.58 m; pedestal – 17 meters. The total height of the monument, including a pedestal and a bronze statue of an angel – 47,5 meters. This is the world’s tallest triumphal column.
Light, slim and yet majestic columns adequately completed the design of the Palace Square.
Monolith weighing 704 tons in 1832, was loaded on a special barge, July 1, delivered in St. Petersburg, and on July 12 landed on the beach on a specially built pier, where his hew as a cylinder. August 30, when a huge gathering of spectators at the center of the square, where previously drove piles into the ground in 1250 and raised ten-meter pedestal of granite boulders, it was placed a column of dark red color. Rally lasted 1 hour 54 minutes. In this well-crafted and skillfully organized complex operation involved two thousand soldiers and four workers. With a half thousand units column first wheeled on a special platform, and then set on a pedestal. So she is in no way binding, keeping only its own weight.
Colossal granite monolith was broke in Pyuterlakskom career, on the northern shore of the Gulf. Huge granite rocks cleared from the ground and moss. Have drawn in chalk on her future size of the column, and then the masons set to work. Worked night and day: some workers held crowbars, other beat on it with sledgehammers. The work was truly superhuman, no one thought of accidents and injuries. And those who remained alive, they could not survive more than two or three months.