The Field of Mars is a large square in the centre of Saint Petersburg. Over its long history it has been alternately a meadow, park, pleasure garden, military parade ground, revolutionary pantheon and
Aerial view of the Field of Mars
View across the Field of Mars, looking north. In the foreground is the course of the Moyka River, with the Neva in the distance
Ice slides and other attractions on the field in the 1820s
The Field of Mars in the early 19th century, by Benjamin Patersen.
Alexander Suvorov
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Count Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov-Rymniksky, Prince of Italy was a Russian general and military theorist in the service of the Russian Empire.
Field of Mars (Saint Petersburg)
…the renaming of the Tsaritsyn Meadow as the "Field of Mars" in 1805, commemorating Mars, the God of war in Roman mythology, whom Kozlovsky had depicted Alexander Suvorov as on his monument. The new name also referenced the Campus Martius in Rome and the Champ de Mars in Paris, drawing parallels and asserting that Saint…
Portrait by Joseph Kreutzinger, 1799
Surrender of the Wawel Royal Castle. French officers pass their swords to Alexander V. Suvorov; author I. D. Schubert
Suvorov near Praga; by Daniel Chodowiecki
Massacre of Praga, uncontrolled by Suvorov. It is considered a personal revenge of the enraged Russian soldiers for Warsaw Uprising events. Aleksander Orłowski