Duc De Richelieu Monument
At the top of the stairs stands a monument depicting Armand-Emmanuel du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, a French nobleman who became Odessa's first governor in 1803. The Russian sculptor Ivan Petrovich Martos (1754–1835) designed the Roman-toga-clad figure. The statue was cast in bronze by Yefimov and unveiled in 1826 - the first monument erected in the city.
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