Julian Konstanty Ordon's tombstone in Lviv's Lychakiv Cemetery is located in the most representative part of the necropolis, the so-called Pantheon. Adam Mickiewicz's poem "Ordon's Redoubt" is credited with the widespread opinion that the heroic defender of Redoubt No. 54, Knight of the Silver Virtuti Militari, which he received for the Battle of Ostroleka, died heroically in Warsaw in September 1831.

. This is a literary legend. It is true that there was indeed an explosion in the Redoubt, but Ordon, who commanded it, did not die. He emigrated, like many other insurgents. He lived in many places abroad, finally settling in Florence. In 1887, at the age of 77, he committed suicide. His body - in accordance with his will - was incinerated.

He should have been laid to rest in the family tomb in the Evangelical Augsburg Cemetery in Warsaw, but the Tsarist authorities did not allow this. Eventually, Ordon's ashes were brought to Lviv through the efforts of the engineer Ludwik Ostaszewski and the sculptor Tadeusz Barącz and initially placed in the Baczewski family chapel. It was not until 1896 that they were placed in the place shown in the photograph.

The designer of the monument - a pyramid-like stone obelisk with an eagle on top and a wounded lion leaping into battle at its feet - was Tadeusz Barącz, but the work was completed by Lviv artist Julian Markowski due to the author's illness.

The monument was unveiled on 29 November 1896, on the 65th anniversary of the November Uprising. Not without problems; after all, Ordon was suicidal and an evangelical.

In 2016, the deteriorating monument was renovated with funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage's 'Protection of Cultural Heritage Abroad' programme.

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