Stereguschy Monument

Categories / Architecture/Sculpture, Monuments
STEREGUSCHEMU Monument, unveiled 26 April1911, in Alexandrovsky Park (sculptor K.V. Isenberg, architect A.I. Gogen). During the Russo-Japanese war, on 26 February 1904, the torpedo boat Stereguschy took up an unequal battle with Japanese ships near Port Arthur. Almost all the crew were killed during the fighting and the ship was taken by the Japanese, although it sank shortly afterwards due to damage sustained. It is officially believed that two sailors, who had survived, opened the kingston valves (flood valves), sinking the vessel, and perished with the torpedo boat. The monument represents a monumental cross standing on a granite block. The front high relief portrait of two sailors against gushing water from the valves. In 1954, on the rear side of the monument a memorial plaque with the image of the torpedo boat and the list of the crew was installed; in 1970, the water supply to the monument was cut off due to damage to the monument. During restoration works of 1993, the lost components were restored, and the structure of the monument was secured.

References: Монументальная и декоративная скульптура Ленинграда / Сост. Е. В. Плюхин, А. Г. Раскин. Л., 1991; Доценко В. Д. Мифы и легенды русской морской истории. СПб., 1997.

Y. M. Piryutko. Gogen Alexander Ivanovich von
Isenberg Konstantin Vasilievich
Монументальная и декоративная скульптура Ленинграда / Сост. Е. В. Плюхин, А. Г. Раскин. Л., 1991
Доценко В. Д. Мифы и легенды русской морской истории. СПб., 1997 1911