Monument "Valiant Vilmanstrantsam"

The monument inspires

The monument is good, but the dirt around is terrifying! Where is the city administration looking?

Now, if then the macaques had not lost, there would not have been traces of another war on this monument

Beautiful and simple monument. During the shelling of the city of Staraya Russa in 1941, the Germans tried not to hit it, took care of it. According to one version, because it is very similar to their award mark. According to another version, one of the commanders will transport him to his country house in Germany. And the monument survived the entire war of 1941-1945.

The eighty-sixth infantry regiment was founded in 1806 and during its existence managed to participate in all military campaigns of the Russian Empire. Repeatedly reformed and renamed, won military victories and suffered crushing defeats and ceased to exist after the revolution, in 1918. The monument was erected in 1913, money helped Nicholas II.