Monument to cat Elisha in St. Petersburg (6 photos)

In St. Petersburg on the building Eliseevsky deli has a very interesting monument: directly on the wall of a building with a small sculpture of a cat, which the locals called Elisha. There is a belief that a black cat helped Count Shuvalov cope with evil spirits, the mesh in the middle of the XVIII century to build the Count's Palace. Now one cat throw a coin for good luck, and the other "piggy bank" regularly ravage. How to extract this change, see below.