In the Italian city of San Remo, a bust of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, wife of Alexander II, has been installed. In the late 19th century, she often rested and improved her health in these areas, which soon transformed a small village into a popular resort. The idea of installing the monument belongs to the Russian side, while the location was chosen by the Italians, and this is no coincidence: Maria Alexandrovna loved to stroll along the seaside promenade of San Remo. The centuries-old trees that adorn the promenade today were a gift from her.

To remind of this historical fact, the residents of St. Petersburg presented a monument to San Remo. Sculptor Vladimir Gorevoy included symbolic elements in the composition, such as pearls, Maria's favorite decoration, as well as a column and pedestal reminiscent of St. Isaac's Cathedral and the granite embankments of the Neva. The bust is installed on the central promenade of the resort, named after Maria Alexandrovna as the "Empress Boulevard," adorned with a thousand palm trees gifted by the Russian empress.

The monument was installed with the assistance of the Committee for External Relations of St. Petersburg and the support of the public organization "Marketing Club." The opening ceremony was attended by the mayor of San Remo, Mario D'Zoccorato, and the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Genoa, Evgeny Boykov. In honor of this event, a concert by the St. Petersburg orchestra "Classics" conducted by Alexander Kantorov took place in San Remo.

Vladimir Gorevoy, a renowned Russian artist-sculptor, was born in 1944 in Moscow and graduated from the sculpture faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Repin. He works in the field of monumental and easel sculpture, and his works are represented in museums in Russia and abroad. Gorevoy is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, and a holder of the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts. Among his works are monuments to Peter I, Paul I, Alexander Nevsky, Peter Klodt, as well as busts of Italian architects Antonio Rinaldi, Carlo Rossi, Giacomo Quarenghi, and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli.

The monument to Maria Alexandrovna, born Princess Maximiliane Wilhelmine Auguste Sophie Maria of Hesse-Darmstadt (1824-1880), is one of the memorial signs associated with the presence of representatives of the Russian Imperial House on the Apennines.