Maguire Gustav Adolf

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Tombstone located in the necropolis of the XVIII century bears the name of Gustav Adolf Maguire. Born in Bavaria as a doctor of Medicine and Surgery, he arrived in Russia in 1832 to serve at the court of Duke Maximilian Leuchtenberg. In the 1840s, sculptor S. Lemolt crafted the sculpture. However, two signatures on the overcoat, Chev LeMolt and S. Lemolt, remain unsigned. The figure depicts a man lying, leaning on his left hand, on a pedestal made from lumps with an inscription carved into the northern side: "La nous serons reunis / Adolphe Mahir / ne le 17 mars 1807 / Decedele 4 aut 1842," which translates to "Here we will be together, Adolphe Maguire, born in 1807 and dead in 1842." The bronze sculpture was moved to the museum necropolis in the 1930s. In 2004, a granite pedestal replica was created, remaining at the grave of A. Maguire at the Smolensk Lutheran cemetery.