Statue of Vytautas the Great

The statue of Vytautas the Great is a public sculpture in Kaunas, Lithuania, erected in 1932, destroyed in 1952, and restored to its original appearance (albeit on a different location) in 1990. It features prominent national figure Grand Duke Vytautas the Great dominating four vanquished warriors representing Poland, the Golden Horde, the Teutonic Order (symbolically also representing Germany), and Muscovy (also representing Russia and the Soviet Union). The reconstructed pedestal features a bronze map of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the time of Vytautas the Great, the only surviving piece of the original monument. That map displays its territory extending all the way to the Black Sea and indicating within it the cities of Bratslav, Kyiv, Kursk, Lutsk, Mogilev, and Smolensk, which are now part of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. It is framed by the inscription "Lietuvos galybės kūrėjui", literally a dedication "to the creator of Lithuanian power", and the dates 1430 and 1930 referring to the 500th anniversary of Vytautas the Great's death.

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