Rumyantsev Obelisk

In the same area with Sakharov Square, there is another historical monuments are not less important. Rumyantsev Obelisk also located on Vasilievsky Ostrova, built as a respect for the services of a commander in the Imperial Russia.

Field-Marshal Pyotr Rumyantsev is its people, the Commander who led the army's war Russia won the War Russia-Turkey at 1768-1774. After a resounding victory that, the Emperor Paul I was instructed to build the monument right on the front page.