Vladimir Rayevsky



Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky (Владимир Федосеевич Раевский; 8 April 1795 – 20 July 1872) 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.