The National Pushkin Museum houses a painting “Odessa. View of the Mole and the Sea Shore at the Vorontsov Palace” by Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (1787–1855), a pioneer of Russian landscape painting.

Vorobyov’s works enjoyed great success among his contemporaries. He saw Odessa a few years later than Pushkin. In 1828, during the Russo-Turkish War, the artist was assigned to the Headquarters of the 2nd Army of the Danube. During that trip, he also visited Odessa, where he made numerous drawings and watercolors, which he later used as paintings.

Alexander Pushkin came to Odessa for the first time in September 1820. He also came there several more times when he lived in Bessarabia for three years. On July 3, 1823, the poet was transferred to Odessa, where he lived for 13 months, until July 31, 1824.