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Rumyantsev Park and Obelisk

Румянцевский сад и обелиск

The big obelisk in honor of Count Peter Rumyantsev's victory in the Russo-Turkish War of 1791 in the center of the park was created 1799 and moved here from the Field of Mars in 1818.

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between the 1st and 2nd lines along Universitetskaya Embankment (Университетской наб.)

Listing from Wikivoyage: Saint Petersburg/Vasilievsky Island, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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