Next to the Elbe River U.S. and Soviet Meeting monument.

Monument comprises a larger-than-life figure of Russian Tsar Alexander II shaking hands with U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in front of a Corinthian column topped by a three-masted sailing ship to symbolize a handshake across the ocean. The complete monument is about 6 meters high, and the figures are both about 3 meters tall -- but in life, Tsar Alexander II was shorter than President Lincoln.

Although President Lincoln and Tsar Alexander II never met in person, they did correspond and both led their countries during challenging reform periods: Alexander II abolished serfdom in Russia in 1861, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S. in 1863. Both would also be assassinated -- Lincoln by a Confederate sympathizer in April 1865, and Alexander II in March 1881, roughly 20 years after his own Manifesto, by a revolutionary group aiming to overthrow the Russian autocracy.

Russian surrealist sculptor Alexander Nikolayevich Burganov, a National Artist of Russia and a member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, created this work in 2011. The statue originally stood outside the Exhibition Hall of the Russian Federation State Archives in the Khamovniki District in central Moscow, for a bilateral U.S.-Russian historic-documentary exhibition under the aegis of the Education, Culture, Media, and Sports Working Group of the Obama-Medvedev Presidential Commission. The exhibition Tsar and President: Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Liberator and Emancipator  opened in February 2011, around the 150th anniversaries of two historic events: the Russian Tsars signing of the Liberation Manifesto freeing 22 million peasants from serfdom on 19 February 1861, and the U.S. Presidents signing of the Emancipation

Proclamation on 1 January 1863. Some attendees at the opening viewed the exhibition as a reflection of President Barack Obamas Reset in relations between the two countries. At some time during mid-2016 or later, monument was moved alongside Burganovs 2016 monument commemorating the meeting between U.S. and Soviet Forces on the Elbe River during World War II in his Sculpture Garden on Ecology Square. [MONUMENT LINK:

https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/monument_details.php?SiteID=2795&MemID=3722 

Burganovs other works include a monument to Alexander Pushkin located at George Washington University in Washington DC (2000), a statue of John Quincy Adams, the first U.S. Ambassador to Russia and later President of the United States, located in front of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (2008); and a monument to US poet Walt Whitman in front of Moscow State University (2009).

Source of information: https://dzen.ru, https://vk.com, www.smithsonianmag.com, https://statearchive.ru, https://2009-2017.state.gov, www.themoscowtimes.com