«Princess Turandot» Fountain

Princess Turandot is the heroine of a tale by the Italian author Carlo Gozzi. Though popular with men, she did not want to get married. The princess came up with an impossible task with which to discourage suitors: she posed three tricky riddles to each of them, and if the man answered them incorrectly, he would be executed. The sculpture's location in front of the Vakhtangov Theatre was chosen deliberately since the fountain is a tribute to the show of the same name.