Monument to Vorontsov

Not every governor-general is awarded a monument for his devotional service to the people. But the Field Marshal General, His Grace Prince Mikhail Yurievich Vorontsov, is just one of these people.

On Cathedral Square, one of the main squares of Odessa, Prince Vorontsov proudly stands on a pedestal made of Crimean granite, or rather his statue, which, surprisingly, is similar to the original. This merit is the German sculpture of Friedrich Brugger, whose work was brought in parts from his homeland.

From the expanses of our Motherland, donations flocked to the construction of the monument, the first of which was made by the then Emperor Alexander II.

But 70 years later, such reverence was not remembered, and the threat of destruction loomed over the monument, but the Red Army only had the destruction of the Transfiguration Cathedral, and Vorontsov resisted. He survived the neighborhood with the monument to Stalin, which was successfully dismantled in 1961.

Apparently, indeed, Prince Vorontsov was a worthy man, since neither revolutions nor wars could win the memory of him.