Monument to Peter I

The monument to Peter I in Poltava was installed in front of the Museum of the History of the Battle of Poltava in 1950. It is a bronze sculptural image of Peter I with a height of 2.04 m (it is known that he was just such a height). The pedestal of the monument was made by the architect D. Vorontsov from black Labradorite. The architect of the pedestal is D. Verotsky. The author of the sculptural image is A. Adamson. The sculpture was made in 1915 in St. Petersburg, at the firm of K. F. Werfel, with funds collected by graduates of the Petrovsky Poltava Cadet Corps, and was intended for the main lobby of this educational institution, where it was before its disbandment in 1919.

Peter I is depicted in the uniform of Colonel Preobrazhensky regiment, on the pedestal you can see the autograph of the sculptor and the date - "1915".