Vladimir Rayevsky
Appearance
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/V_Raevsky.jpg/220px-V_Raevsky.jpg)
Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky (Russian: Владимир Федосеевич Раевский; 8 April [O.S. 28 March] 1795 – 20 July [O.S. 8 July] 1872) is 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.[1]