Christina Gyllenstierna statue

Kristina Nilsdotter (Gyllenstierna) led Sweden's uprising against Denmark in the 1510s, after the death of her husband Sten Sture (Sweden's acting head of state). The statue was erected on the Stockholm Palace courtyard in 1912, as Sweden's first public monument for a woman. Driving force behind the statue were the defense of Stockholm (with the arms race before World War I), and the movement for women's suffrage (granted 1918).

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