The Monument to Lanskoi. (the marble pedestal «In honour of virtue and services») (an ensemble of the Catherine Park)

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The chamber “marble pedestal in honour of virtue and services” or so-called the monument to A.D. Lanskoi is located at the Upper Ponds near the Kagul Obelisk. The monument was erected by the architect A. Rinaldi in the late 1770s – the middle 1780s. The monument design goes back to samples of the basic manuals on laying out of landscape gardens. On the bronze plaque, directed to the Catherine Palace, there is the sign “What a great pleasure for honour people to see virtue and services appreciated at their true value”. Also reliefs of A.D. Lanskoi’s coat of arms and a medal embossed in his memory were placed on the plague. The profile with the sign “Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Lanskoi, General- Lieutenant and General -Aide-de-camp” was placed on one side and on the another side there was an obelisk with four cypresses and the signs “In memory of friendship” and “was born on 8 March 1758, died on 25 June 1784”. Lanskoi, a favourite of the Empress and the most renowned home owner of Sophia Town, was buried in the Kazan cemetery. The sign on the pedestal, evidently lost under Emperor Paul rule, was restored in the 1900s. Semenova Galina Victorovna
Lanskoy Alexander Dmitrievich
Paul (Pavel) I, Emperor
Rinaldi Antonio
Ekaterininsky Park/Pushkin, town