Monument to Friedrich Schiller

The monument to the great German poet, the work of Stanislav Kauer, opened on November 10, 1910. Presumably, the monument was erected in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Königsberg Opera House. According to the city legend, the monument survived the storming of the city thanks to an inscription left by an unknown military. Presumably the phrase was: ‘Do not shoot! German Pushkin’. In another legend version, the Soviet officer stopped the demolition of the monument, telling the soldiers the plot of the ‘The Robber Brothers’, one of the poet's works.