Monument to the founders of Odesa, also known as the monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions, was a monument located in Odesa, Ukraine, on then Katerynska Square.
The reconstructed monument in 2010
Opening of the monument to Catherine II in Odesa
The original monument
The monument in 1931
Grigory Potemkin
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Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski was a Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman, and favourite of Catherine the Great. He died during negotiations over the Treaty of Iași, which
Monument to the founders of Odesa
…Odesy), also known as the monument to Empress Catherine II of Russia and her companions (José de Ribas, François Sainte de Wollant, Platon Zubov and Grigory Potemkin), was a monument located in Odesa, Ukraine, on then Katerynska Square (now European Square). The original monument was built in 1900 by the project of…
1847 portrait, copy of an earlier work by Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder
Potemkin uniforms, in service from 1786 until 1796. Russian infantry and jägers. (in German)
A probably later portrait of a 35-year-old Potemkin at the height of his love affair with Catherine
The Empress Catherine (45) at around the same time