Vladimir Rayevsky

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{{About|Russian poet|Russian journalist|Vladimir Rayevsky (journalist)}}

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Vladimir Fedoseyevich Rayevsky ({{langx|ru|Владимир Федосеевич Раевский}}; {{OldStyleDate|8 April|1795|28 March}} – {{OldStyleDate|20 July|1872|8 July}}) was a Russian poet, who participated in the Patriotic war of 1812.

After the war, when living in Tiraspol, he became a leading member of the Southern Society of Decembrists. The world's only known statue of him is located in Tiraspol.{{Cite web |title=Tiraspol, capital of Pridnestrovie |url=http://pridnestrovie.net/tiraspol.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311112419/http://pridnestrovie.net/tiraspol.html |archive-date=11 March 2007 |access-date=21 April 2006}}