Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odesa

The Statue of Graf Vorontsov, Odessa, is a sculptural and former monument established in 1863 on the Sobor Square in Odesa in honor of Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov, Field Marshal, the General-Governor of Novorossiya Region and plenipotentiary governor of Bessarabia who was a graf until 1845, then knyaz from 1845. The sculptor is Friedrich Brugger, the pedestal was made under the command of Sevastopol 1st guild merchant P.A. Telyatnikov. and the architect was Francesco Carlo Boffo. On 11 November 2023 the monumental status of the sculpture was scrapped. It was the second monument in Odesa after the Statue of the Duke of Richelieu. The statue has also been known as the statue of Vorontsov, the statue of Graf Vorontsov or the statue of Knyaz Vorontsov.

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