Enlightened benefactor Prince of Oldenburg

Member of the State Council, Chairman of the Department of Civil and Spiritual Affairs, Major Governor of the IV Department of Own E.I.V. office, president of a free economic society, chairman of the Russian society of international law, a reformer of women"s education, a trustee of a number of educational institutions and the first sacred community in Russia, the founder of the shelters, schools, hospitals, the founder of the Imperial School of Law - All this is the sphere of state and Charitable activities Prince P.G. Oldenburg for 50 years of his disinterested service Fatherland. Monument to P.G. Oldenburg, established by his grateful descendants in St. Petersburg on Flytein Prospekt in 1889, was not only a grant of the memory of the prince-benefactor, but also a reminder that there are such concepts as law, justice, mercy and compassion