Morea Column

The Morea Column, 7 meters high, is installed in Catherine Park near the Lower Ponds in honor of the victories of Russian troops on the Morea Peninsula in 1770. The monument is crowned with a cone-shaped obelisk made of pink Tivdian marble with two decorative rostra and a relief in the form of a winding ribbon. On the western side of the pedestal, a plaque is attached with an inscription stating that six hundred Russian soldiers took six thousand Turks prisoner. The column stands at the intersection of three alleys in the regular part of the park and closes their perspective.