At the summit is placed the Russian eagle, grasping in his talons a globe and holding in his beak a serpent convoluted into a ring, the emblem of eternity, in the most obvious and common sense; yet, perhaps, at the same time allusive to the conquest of a foe, whose insidious and envenomed friend ship had nearly brought ruin upon the Russian nation. At the bottom of the pillar are placed the French eagles. This, no doubt, is their fit place...
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