Facts About Russia You Never Knew Until Now

Population Full of Rabbits

Aside from fish, there’s a whole other animal that has a charming reputation across Russia: the rabbit. If you cross the bridge out of St. Petersburg toward the Peter and Paul Fortress, you’ll spot a number of rabbit statues – but what do they represent?

The statues are tributes to all the many rabbits that used to live on the island in the 18th and 19th centuries. Due to ongoing floods in the region, many of the rabbits sadly died out – but their legacy lives on in these statues.