🏛 Monument to P. Kh. Wittgenstein

Сиверский, Вокзальная ул. (у ул. Саши Никифорова)

A monument to the victories of Count Peter Wittgenstein, who defended Petersburg in the Patriotic War of 1812.

The monument opened on 9 May 2016.
Wittgenstein was nicknamed the "Saviour of Petersburg" after the battles at Klyastitsy and Polotsk in the summer of 1812, where he was wounded twice.
In 1812 Wittgenstein's corps covered the roads to Petersburg, at first with only 20,000 soldiers.
In 1813 Wittgenstein took Berlin, and he became a general field marshal in 1826.
The lands here — Druzhnoselye, Vyritsa, Belogorka — belonged to his descendants, the Wittgenstein princes, until the early 20th century.

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