The huge old bronze. For help in the attribution is ready to reward generously.

[AlexSpb]

FOR INFORMATION to pay, as they like to repeat to each other different fools themselves, as a rule, no useful information, do not possess.
Of course, more pleasant to receive competent advice for free, what is not personally convinced of times on this forum. But when writing the title came also from the fact that, find out the identity of the author will not be able to manage the available knowledge in the head and may have to search through a bunch of literature ...
In short, I'm not greedy, and within a thousand dollars to pay for such counseling will highlight with pleasure!

In essence the question:
Bronze centimeters in length and weighs 75-80 kilograms of forties. Guaranteed - before the war.
According to the owner, a Russian-type signature "Poles" was on the marble, then broken and discarded as useless. "Russian" version might be a dead end: no suitable Polyakov I'm looking for is not found. But lying to the owner was not much point: for the tiny price he asked for the subject, I would have bought it anyway. And anyone in my position would be acquired.
Also sure that any most long unsold authorship, Russian or not, the price impact - very, very, looks so cool thing!
Like, I heard somewhere saying bad for bronze "No signature, no author," but not in the same instance of a casting is made, hope springs eternal!
Photos made in the field, but, like, all they see.

Ah, had not been ... Paolo Trubetskoy to pay twice! <! - ~ 1 ~ ->