Post-Soviet Petersburg remains a city in which multiple and contested memories, myths, and possible futures coexist. Successive waves of renamings have left eclectic traces on the map of St. Petersburg, where Palace Square exists alongside both the revolutionary [Jean Paul] Marat Street and the post-Soviet Academic [Andrei] Sakharov Square. The Bronze Horseman and Vladimir Lenin on an armored car continue to stand in salute on opposite sides of the Neva. The monument on the Field of Mars that commemorates the victims of the old regime has been joined by a quintessentially Petersburg monument to the victims of the Revolution: émigré sculptor Mikhail Chemiakin's pair of sphinx-skeletons.