Vladimir Rayevsky Explained

Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky (Russian: Владимир Федосеевич Раевский; –) was a Russian poet, who participated in the Patriotic war of 1812.

After the war, when living in Tiraspol, he became a leading member of the Southern Society of Decembrists. The world's only known statue of him is located in Tiraspol.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tiraspol, capital of Pridnestrovie . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070311112419/http://pridnestrovie.net/tiraspol.html . 11 March 2007 . 21 April 2006.