Emperor Alexander II donated 3000 silver rubles, many citizens of Odesa contributed in the first days of the opening.

Implementation of all the bronze works, the statue of Vorontsov and the bas-reliefs, were committed via the Russian envoy in Munich, Privy Councillor Severin to the author of the project with the payment of 32,000 Bavarian guldens including delivery to Trieste or Vienna.

[2] The likeness was achieved as the sculptor was able to take advantage of the last portrait of Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov by the Berlin master of portraiture Franz Krüger (1797–1857).

[2] Eleven stone blocks, the smaller of which weighed more than 200 pounds, were mined near Ayu-Dag for the plinth, cornice, and the middle of the monument's pedestal.

About noon, after the Divine Liturgy which was carried out in the Cathedral be the Most Reverend Dimitriy, the Kherson and Odesa archbishop, the procession ... had moved from the Cathedral and took the marked for her places around the monument, which were arranged by 4 platform: for the clergy, for the Generalitat, for local and non-resident citizens.The ritual of monument consecration was carried out by the church servants.

[2][5] The statue mounted on the tetrahedral pedestal of polished and shiny dark green with whitish and blackish speckles Crimean diorite.

[3] The sides were decorated with three bronze bas-reliefs commemorating scenes from the graf's history and an inscription was affixed to the front of the pedestal:

[7] In the second part of 1930s, the Soviet authorities tried to pull down the statue but the thick steel chain, which was secured around to the monument and to a powerful tractor, broke.

[3] Unable to destroy the statue, Odesa Agitprop had the dedication replaced by an unflattering verse by poet Alexandr Pushkin.

[8][9] At the start of World War II the anti-aircraft guns were installed in the Square, close to the monument, to protect Odesa from the bombing.

A construction in the form of a miniature map of the Soviet Union including rivers and hydroelectric power plants was posted close to this statue.

[5] By December 31, 1991, the few remaining Soviet institutions that had not been taken over by Russia ceased operation, and individual republics assumed the central government's role, and the historical memories began to come back.

In autumn 2005, the remains of the Knyaz Vorontsov family were returned to the newly rebuilt Cathedral on Sobor Square in Odesa.

[1] This law prohibits toponymy that symbolizes or glorifies Russia, individuals who carried out aggression against Ukraine (or another country), as well as totalitarian policies and practices related to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, including Ukrainians living in Russian-occupied territories.