Saint George attributed to Vasili Yermolin

From the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery

Dmitry Ivanov. 2014. CC-BY-SA 3.0. The description of the photo →
Saint George. A fragment of the destroyed sculpture. 1464 (?). Coloured stone. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

The statue was a decoration of the Frolovskaya Strelnitsa (barbican) of the Moscow Kremlin and, later, of the Spasskaya Tower (initially the Frolovskaya Tower) built in 1491 at the site of the demolished barbican.
It was believed that the statue was sculpted by Vasily Yermolin, who was known as a merchant and contractor. Now reseachers call this attribution in question: Yermolin was the purchaser, but not the author of the sculpture. Most probably, the statue was created by masters from Italy.