Monument to A. D. Lanskoy

The monument to A. D. Lansky is located in the Catherine Park of Pushkin on the Great Meadow. This marble pedestal with a vase, present in the plans of Tsarskoye Selo since the early 1770s, was originally called "Marble Pedestal in Honor of Virtue and Merit." In 1784 or 1785, by order of Catherine II, an inscription was added to it, and the monument became dedicated to the memory of the favorite, whose profile is depicted on one side of the medal. The text from the lost plaque, glorifying virtues, is known from a retelling of 1830, and the dedication to Lansky itself, according to various sources, was removed during the reign of Paul I or by the decision of Nicholas I in the 1830s.