Peter I

Let’s start our trip. We are at   Lipetsk Regional Museum - one of the oldest in the Central Black Earth. We are walking down  and let's make a stop at the obelisk of Peter I on Petrovsky descent.The monument is a three-sided cast-iron pyramid. Its pedestal is decorated with two bas-reliefs. There is the image of the God Vulcan, the ancient Roman patron of blacksmithing on the first side, and on the other-the ancient goddess of health Gigia.After going a little down, you will see a sign-monument on the site of the former office of ironworks. If you look to the right - "Guns" - a monument to the birth of metallurgy in Lipetsk.Once there was another historic building between today's chapel and the Union. The Lipetsk travel Palace of Peter I. If it had survived to the present day, would have become the pearl of the city.   Peter I glorified Lipetsk not only with iron. "One day, Peter I, walking with General Sinyavin on the Bank of the Lipovka river, noticed a spring of clear water gushing from the ground. The bottom and banks of the stream were covered with rusty sediment. Having information about the mineral waters of European resorts and visiting them himself, he gives the order.»