Thomire's company produced a mantelpiece set consisting of this clock and a pair of matching candelabra. The Russian industrialist and art patron Nikolai Demidov who was living in Paris at the time suggested the Russian theme - a clock based on Ivan Martos's sculptural composition Minin and Pozharsky - to the French bronze-smith. The clock was created from the 1808 design for the monument in which the Russian 17th-century heroes are depicted in a Classical manner, but their poses already accord with the final version of the monument that was set up on Red Square in Moscow in 1818. There are in existence a large number of repetitions of this model of different sizes and in different materials. The clock is complemented by two matching gilded bronze six-branch candelabra featuring military trophies and a figure of Glory standing on an orb.