The Izmail fortress on the Danube River was built by the Turks in the 16th century and was fortified until the end of the 19th century, when on December 11, 1790, during the Russian-Turkish war of 1787-1791, the fortress, which was considered impregnable, was taken by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov. However, according to the results of the peace treaty concluded in Iasi in 1791, Ishmael remained under the rule of the Turkish Sultan. During the new Russian-Turkish war of 1806-1812, on September 14, 1809, the fortress was nevertheless taken by Russian troops under the command of General A.P. Zass. After the defeat of Russia in the Crimean War, under the terms of the Paris Peace Treaty of 1856, the fortress of Izmail was blown up, the fortifications were torn down.
For the preservation and exposition of historical and cultural objects on the territory of the former fortress, the Fortress Memorial Park-Museum was created in 1991. Here, in addition to the diorama, you can see the preserved parts of earthen ramparts and a deep defensive moat, the ruins of a retaining wall made of bricks on lime mortar, the Chilia Gates of the Nikolsky Monastery, the Assumption Church, the Nicholas Church, the Romanian monument "Eagle", installed in 1930 above the crypt, where 420 nameless warriors are buried. Near the park-museum there is a branch of the museum of A. V. Suvorov - the diorama "Storm of the Izmail Fortress" 20x7 meters in size, opened in 1973 in the building of a Turkish mosque of the 11th century. Entrance to the diorama is paid.