Plevna Chapel

It was opened on a square outside the Ilyinka Gate of the Walled City in Moscow on the 10th anniversary of the taking of Pleven (1887), in the presence of Field Marshal Nikolai Nikolayevich.

The interior, now empty, once housed a set of bronze plaques listing 18 Grenadier officers and 542 soldiers who died at Plevna.

The sides of the monument are adorned with four high reliefs: a Russian old peasant who is blessing a grenadier's son; a Turkish infantryman with a dagger, snatching a baby out of its Bulgarian mother's hands; a grenadier taking a Turkish soldier prisoner; a dying Russian warrior tearing a chain from a woman personifying Bulgaria.

In front of the monument, there are cast-iron pedestals with inscriptions "In favour of the crippled grenadiers and their families" (donation cups were placed on them).

In the interior of the chapel, decorated with polychrome tiles, were pictorial images of Alexander Nevsky, John the Warrior, Nicholas the Wonderworker, Cyril and Methodius, seven bronze plates with the names of fallen grenadiers (killed or died from wounds) – 18 officers and 542 soldiers.