Kagul Obelisk

Kagul Obelisk.

The Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo is one of several such structures erected on behest of Catherine II of Russia in 1772 to commemorate Pyotr Rumyantsev's victory in the Battle of Kagul. Designed by Antonio Rinaldi, the dark grey-and-red marble obelisk stands in the landscape park of the Catherine Palace.

The inscription on the pedestal reads: "In memory of the victory at the Kagul River in Moldavia, July 21, 1770, under the command of Count Peter Rumyantsev the Russian army of seventeen thousand caused the Turkish Vizier Galil-Bey and his army of one hundred thousand and a half to flee to the Danube".

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Showplaces in Catherine Park of Tsarskoye Selo Other parks of Tsarskoye Selo: Alexander Park Babolovsky Park Buferniy Park Fermersky Park Otdelniy Park Formal garden Buildings Catherine Palace Cameron Gallery Amber Room Palace Cruch Zubovskiy Corpse Agate rooms Grotto Top Bath Down Bath Parklands Hanging Gardens Rock-garden Water gardens Pond Pond at the top bath Cascades Canal Large Pond The Swan Fountainlet Landscape garden Pavilions Hermitage Back regions of Hermitage Admiralty Pavilion on island Turkish bath Pyramid Ruin Tower Concert Hall Evening Hall Ruin Back regions Creaking arbour Pink Watchhouse Big Caprice Small Caprice Buildings To Kind my colleagues Gate Orlovsky Gate Gothic Gate Moreiskaya Column Chesme Column Kagul Obelisk Granite bridge Marble Bridge Сross-slide bridge Milestone Granite terrace Terrace-Colonnade Galatea Statue Sculptures of lions Water gardens Rope Ferry Large Pond Small pond with islands Long Pond Girl with a jug fountain Red Cascade Lake Chinese Canal Parklands Triangle square Ramp avenue Own garden Other cocktail belt museums: Gatchina Pavlovsk Palace Petrodvorets

Coordinates: 59°42′51.67″N 30°23′31.47″E / 59.7143528°N 30.3920750°E / 59.7143528; 30.3920750