The Kagul Obelisk, a monument

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The town of Pushkin, the Catherine Park, nearby the Private Garden.

The architect: Antonio Rinaldi (1709-1794)

The obelisk was erected in 1771-1772

Materials: the obelisk and pedestal are made of Siberian grey with veins marble; steps are made of Tivdia red marble; the plinth and stylobata are made of pink granite; the plague with inscription is made of bronze.

Inscriptions:
On the plague from the northern side of the pedestal:
In memory of the victory at the Kagul River in Moldavia on 21 July 1770,
under the heading of General Count Pyetr Rumyantsev the Russian army 17 thousands in number put the 150-thousand army of Vizier Galil-bey to flight up to the Danube River.
The modest needle-shaped obelisk without allegory decorations and attributes influences upon viewers by the sophistication of its silhouette, the scale and colour spectrum of used marbles. The obelisk is included into the series of the Tsarskoye Selo monuments devoted to the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, from which the theme of military glory in the native monumental art has started.


The late 1770s - the 1790s.
The further improvements of the New (Alexander) Garden. The construction of the Chinese Village, Small and Great Caprices. Rinaldi Antonio
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town вблизи Собственного сада