D.V. Davydov Monument

The monument to Denis Davydov, the legendary hero of Napoleonic wars and a poet in times of peace, was created by the sculptor V. Kurdov.  It is the only of five existing monuments to Davydov that shows him in civil clothes rather than his hussar uniform.  The monument is a brozne bust at the four-sided plinth of pink granite. The inscription runs ‘Penza is my inspiration’.
The monument was opened in 1984 on the 200th anniversary of his birth